exit poll

noun

: a poll taken (as by news media) of voters leaving the voting place that is usually used for predicting the winners

exit polling noun

Examples of exit poll in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The study’s results reveal that the initial 2024 exit polls actually underestimated Latinos’ Trump support, with the Republican candidate tracking at 46% of the Latino vote on election day. — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

Launched in 2025, the survey conducted by SSRS is the successor to the Edison/National Election Pool exit poll and AP VoteCast/Fox News Voter Analysis. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2026

And with audiences giving Digger a C on the exit poll Cinemascore (for which anything below a B usually spells disaster), word of mouth will only further curtail its prospects of striking box-office gold. — Chris Lee, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026

The projections were based on exit polls and partial counting for ARD television. — Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1976, in the meaning defined above

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