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List of polling organizations

This is a list of notable polling organizations by country. All the major television networks, alone or in conjunction with the largest newspapers or magazines, in virtually every country with elections, operate their own versions of polling operations, in collaboration or independently through various applications.

Several organizations try to monitor the behavior of polling firms and the use of polling and statistical data, including the Pew Research Center and, in Canada, the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy.

01Australia

02Brazil

  • IBOPE (Instituto Brasileiro de Opinião Pública e Estatística) which acronym has become the Brazilian household word for TV audience rating and a slang word that indicates that a meeting or similar function had significant attendance.
  • OPUS Research

03Canada

04France

05Germany

06Iran

07Malaysia

08Philippines

09Ukraine

10United Kingdom

11United States

Statistician Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight maintained a list of pollsters who conduct surveys in U.S. political elections and assigns each pollster a rating based on its methodology and historical accuracy. Silver also lists the number of polls analyzed for each pollster.

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