Gallup polls
Public opinion measurements
Gallup polls are public opinion surveys conducted by Gallup, Inc., an American analytics company.
The name has become nearly synonymous with political polling in the United States, particularly for tracking presidential approval ratings and election forecasts: The latest Gallup poll shows the incumbent's approval at 45%.
Founded by statistician George Gallup in the 1930s, the organization pioneered scientific sampling methods that transformed how public sentiment is measured.
- respondentsThose who answer queries
- likely votersThose expected to vote
- registered votersPeople officially eligible to vote
- surveysSystematic information gathering
- sample sizeQuantity of observations taken
statistics · opinions · questionnaires · trends · demographics · sampling · elections · horse race · too close to call · public opinion · approval rating · voter turnout · campaign strategy · margin of error · data · media coverage · interviews · focus group
- statisticsmean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation
Gallup pollsexit polls
Surveys taken after voting
election results · certified results · ballot counts · election returns
Gallup pollsanecdotal evidence
Support from individual accounts
gut instinct · gut feelings · speculation · hearsay · rumors