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How to view results
To analyze results in more detail, navigate to the Polly app in your Teams sidebar or the Polly tab in any channel. Here you will see all pollys you have created, along with a summary of their responses. You can also perform additional actions such as closing or deleting a polly.
Click View Details on any polly to open the new detailed results view.
The Results View
The results view opens a full-page detailed breakdown of your polly. It gives you a rich insight into responses, charts, and settings — all in one place.
The view is organized into three sections:
- Responses — a list of individual responses per question. If there are multiple responses, you are able to scroll through them easily.
- Results — visual charts and insights for each question, showing how respondents answered at a glance.
- Settings — displays the configuration of the polly including audience type, anonymity setting, and results visibility.
✏️Note: For multi-question surveys, quizzes, and trivia, the Responses tab includes a Responders / Non-responders toggle to filter between those who have and haven't responded. Participants who started but didn't complete the polly are labeled as Incomplete responses and can be shown or hidden using the Include incomplete responses toggle in the left panel. This is a paid feature — free users will see a locked upgrade prompt.
Poll type-specific results
The results view adapts based on the type of polly:
Multiple choice: Shows a list of who responded and what they selected, alongside a chart of the overall response breakdown.
NPS: Displays each respondent's score alongside the NPS chart visualization.
Emoji rank: Shows emoji responses per respondent and an analytics chart for the full set of responses.
Quizzes: Correct answers are highlighted in green in the chart. For questions with multiple correct answers, each correct option is labeled. Each respondent's total score is shown based on how many questions they answered correctly.
Open-ended: Responses are shown one at a time with navigation controls to move through all submissions.
Additional actions from the results view
From within the results view you can also:
- Send to Channel — share the polly results directly to another Teams channel without leaving the view.
- Manage Owner (available from the Polly tab in a channel) — assign another user as an owner of the polly. The owner will have access to the owner view for that polly.
- Copy Participation Link — copy the polly's web link to share externally.
Seeing Voter Names
By default all pollys are not anonymous, and we populate user names as we process their vote. You can see a quick snapshot of the voters names on the polly results in channel:
By default we’ll collapse voter names if there are more than ~3 votes for an option, click on the show votes text to reveal the additional voter names.
💡Know more about the settings you can customise while creating a polly including anonymity, schedule, voting, question types etc