0 the activity of asking people about how they voted as they leave a polling station (= place at which people vote), to try to discover who will win the election --
1 a study in which people are asked how they voted as they leave the polling station (= place where people vote): --
Exit polls may sway people in their vote.
Unlike an opinion poll, which asks whom the voter plans to vote for or some similar formulation, an exit poll asks whom the voter actually voted for.
At issue were the early release of some poll information, issues regarding correcting exit poll data using actual voter totals, and differences between exit polls and official results.
Watching election results together, he would exuberantly express delight when the exit polls were confounded.
However, the actual results showed that the exit poll was a good predictor.
Discrepancies existed between early exit poll information and the officially reported results.
However, at the time, the company stated that the issues were with the voting, not the exit poll.
A second exit poll gave his party 27.5 percent.
