An election exit poll is a poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations. A similar poll conducted before actual voters have voted is called an entrance poll. Exit polls are also used to collect demographic data about voters and to find out why they voted as they did.
About Exit poll in brief
An election exit poll is a poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations. A similar poll conducted before actual voters have voted is called an entrance poll. Pollsters – usually private companies working for newspapers or broadcasters – conduct exit polls to gain an early indication as to how an election has turned out. Exit polls are also used to collect demographic data about voters and to find out why they voted as they did. They are used to command a mandate as well as to determine whether or not a particular political campaign was successful or not. Widespread criticism of exit polling has occurred, especially in the United States, where exit-poll results have provided a basis for projecting winners before all real polls have closed. In India, the largest democracy in the world, exit polls are conducted by private news channels and newspaper agencies.
In South Korea, KBS conducted exit polls; in India, The Times of India, Today, TheCVoter, etc. The release of exit poll data in the US is controlled. In the US, it is protected by the First Amendment, however it is not protected by NBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX News, and NBC. In Egypt, the Egyptian center for public opinion research conducted in 2014 exit polls for the referendum exit poll and the presidency elections exit polls. In 2020, in-person interviews on Election Day were conducted at a random sample of 115 polling locations nationwide among 7,774 Election Day voters. The results also include 4,919 telephone interviews with early and absentee voters. In 2016 exit polls correctly pointed to a narrow lead for Norbert Hofer among those who voted at a polling station.
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