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

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In the 2024 presidential election, exit polls suggest that Trump doubled his 2020 margin of victory among rural voters from 15 to 30 percentage points. —

Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025 Biden’s 35-point lead among young women over Trump in 2020 shrunk to a 24-point lead for Harris this year, per an NBC News exit poll. —

Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024 Three, the final Wisconsin exit poll of actual voters (done for the networks) showed a similar 3-point GOP edge in party ID. —

Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024 Advertisement Voter surveys such as exit polls, which canvass broad swaths of the electorate, aren’t able to gauge the impact of such microtargeting, but some backers say the effort was worth it. —

Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for exit poll