Poll database and downloads

Every poll in our feed, one row per candidate, with the pollster, dates, sample, margin of error, question wording and source. Filter, then download exactly what you see, or take the whole dataset. Free to use with credit; see the data and licensing page.

The table shows a window of the newest polls. For the complete history, use the full downloads below.

Full downloads

• All verified polls, CSV every poll in our averages, one row per candidate
• All polls, CSV adds polls from unverified pollsters, flagged in the verified column
• All verified polls, JSON
• Race poll averages, CSV leader, margin and number of verified polls for each race
• Race poll averages, JSON

Licence: CC BY 4.0: credit "Vugol.Me" and link to https://vugol.me. Files refresh every 15 minutes. Limits: 30 requests a minute per IP on the filtered API, 6 a minute on the full files. Need more, or a feed with support? Contact us.

Use it in code

# curl
curl -L "https://vugol.me/api/public/polls?state=GA&verified=1&format=csv" -o ga-polls.csv

# Python
import pandas as pd
polls = pd.read_csv("https://vugol.me/api/public/polls/all?format=csv&verified=1")
polls[polls.race_key == "US-NC"].groupby("candidate_name").value_pct.mean()

# R
polls <- read.csv("https://vugol.me/api/public/polls/all?format=csv&verified=1")

Parameters for /api/public/polls: office, state, pollster, contestKey, verified=1, from and to (YYYY-MM-DD), page, limit (up to 500), format (json or csv).

Data dictionary

Polls (one row per candidate per poll)

Race averages

Only polls from verified pollsters with a public source are averaged. Reader polls on this site (Vugol Pulse, race polls) are never in these files. See the methodology.