1) Biennial news tool 2) Election day benchmark 3) Election night news 4) Election-predicting aid 5) Election-predicting tool 6) Forecasting tool 7) Political predictor 8) Primary sample 9) Type of polling 10) Voting-site survey 
An election exit poll is a poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations. 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. A similar poll conducted before actual voters have voted is called an entrance poll. Pollsters...
A poll asking people how they have voted just after they have left the polling station.
A poll asking people how they have voted just after they have left the polling station.
noun a poll of voters as they leave the voting place; usually taken by news media in order to predict the outcome of an election
a poll taken of a small percentage of voters as they leave the polls, used to forecast the outcome of an election or determine the reasons for voting decisions.