AllPollsUSA.com brings together United States voting-intention polling in one place: the generic congressional ballot (“if the election were held today, would you vote for the Democratic or the Republican candidate for Congress?”) on the home page, and the presidential head-to-head on its own page. Both are shown as vote share, in interactive charts, with every polling firm side by side.
AllPollsUSA.com is independent and not affiliated with any polling firm.
Sources and licenses
Two separately licensed pools of data feed this site, and they are never merged. The generic-ballot series is CC BY 4.0; the presidential series is CC BY-SA 4.0. Every page on this site is a produced work of exactly one of the two, so each license applies to its own material and nothing here claims a single license over the whole site. There is no combined download that would blend them.
| Source | What it covers | License | Source link | License text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoteHub | Generic congressional ballot, December 2024 onward | CC BY 4.0 | votehub.com | CC BY 4.0 |
| FiveThirtyEight / ABC News | Generic congressional ballot, 1998–2022 | CC BY 4.0 | github.com/fivethirtyeight/data | CC BY 4.0 |
| Wikipedia contributors | Presidential head-to-head polling, 2020 and 2024 cycles | CC BY-SA 4.0 | en.wikipedia.org | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
How current the generic-ballot data is
Our generic-ballot source publishes on its own cadence, and that cadence is not real time. Measured against the live feed: an individual poll appears about four days after its fieldwork ends (the median), but the head of the feed itself runs roughly a month behind — the newest poll available to us was 30 days old when we last checked. So a poll you read about in the news today will usually show up here within a few weeks, not the same afternoon. We publish with that lag rather than switching to a source we are not licensed to republish.
Likely voters, registered voters and adults
Polling firms report their results for a specific population: LV (likely voters), RV (registered voters) or A (all adults). Where a poll reports more than one, we keep a single headline figure per poll, preferring likely voters, then registered voters, then adults — the same order US poll aggregators use. We record that label with the poll wherever the source states it, which today means the generic-ballot polls: our presidential source is Wikipedia, whose tables carry no population column at all, so those polls are stored without one. The presidential page is built to print the label next to each polling firm and will start doing so for any presidential poll that arrives with one.
Two honest consequences. First, firms typically switch from registered voters to likely voters as an election approaches, and the two populations do not give the same number, so a series can show a small step at that switch. We show that step and explain it; we do not adjust it away. This site publishes polls, not models. Second, the labels exist for the December-2024-onward data only: the 1998–2022 archive we use records no population column at all, so those polls carry no label rather than a guessed one.
For the generic-ballot polls that do carry a label, the mix is currently 242 registered-voter polls, 114 likely-voter polls, 21 all-adult polls, and 3 where the source states no population.
What the generic-ballot history looks like
The 1998–2022 archive is a late-campaign collection: it holds the polls taken in the roughly two months before each election and very little in between. The history is therefore a series of dense pre-election clusters with near-empty years between them — that is the shape of the source, not a gap in our processing.
There is also one real hole: between November 2022 and December 2024 we have no generic-ballot polls at all. The archive stops after the 2022 midterms and our live source begins in December 2024. Nothing was lost or dropped; that period simply has no openly licensed per-poll source we can republish. We would rather show the gap than fill it with data we cannot license.
What the presidential page covers
The presidential series covers the 2020 and 2024 cycles. Earlier cycles (2008, 2012, 2016) are not included: in the source tables for those years the candidate columns are not machine-identifiable the way later cycles are, and rather than guess which column belongs to which candidate we have left them out until that can be read reliably. They are deferred, not dropped.
For each cycle we show the head-to-head between the actual major-party nominees, from the date both had clinched their nomination onward, plus any third-party candidate appearing in the same table. Polling taken before that date is a hypothetical matchup rather than a choice voters could make, and primary polling is a different question entirely; neither is included. In 2024 the nominee changed mid-cycle, so the chart shows one line ending in July and another beginning — which is what happened.
One further exclusion worth naming. The 2024 source also holds separate five-way tables (Harris vs. Trump vs. Kennedy vs. West vs. Stein). We do not merge those into the series: 21 of their 32 rows are the same polling firm on the same date as a row in the two-way table, and one reading per firm per day is all this site can store — merging them would make the stored figure flip between the two-way and five-way numbers from one update to the next. The presidential page therefore shows the two-way head-to-head, at the cost of 11 five-way-only polls (about 1% of the presidential data).
Polls we exclude
Polls conducted for a party, campaign or candidate — partisan and internal polls — are excluded from both series, because this site has no way to display that sponsorship next to the number and including them would quietly tilt the averages. One disclosed asymmetry: our live source flags both “partisan” and “internal” polls, while the 1998–2022 archive carries a partisan flag only. The two halves of the generic-ballot series are therefore filtered on the same rule but not on identical evidence.
Polling averages and forecasts — RealClearPolitics, model-based averages, and similar — are also excluded. They are other people's analyses of the same polls, not polls.
Not covered
Presidential approval, state-level polling, Senate, gubernatorial and district races, primary and hypothetical-matchup polling, and aggregator averages are all out of scope. This site covers two national vote-intention questions and reports them carefully, rather than covering everything shallowly.