Poll and vote form templates
A poll settles one question now — which option wins — while a survey measures a range of things over time, and every template here is built for the first job: six to nine questions, radios and checkboxes carrying the vote, and exactly one open text box on each for the reasoning a tally cannot hold. This collection gathers formformform's poll and vote templates, from a blank Option A–D ballot for a team decision to a Support/Oppose/Abstain vote on a community proposal, an on-the-record public comment and an unattributed staff pulse with no email field at all.
A poll and a survey are not the same job, and the difference decides which template you clone. A survey measures a range of things over time — six dimensions of job satisfaction, five aspects of an event, a battery of rated statements you will run again next quarter. A poll settles one question now: which option wins, and whether the group will back it. Every template gathered here is built for that second job, which is why each runs six to nine questions rather than the thirteen or fourteen a full survey like the Post-Event Survey or the Employee Satisfaction Survey needs, and why each carries exactly one open text box — "What's your reasoning?" on the Team Decision Poll, "Comments or concerns" on the Community Vote Form — instead of a second page of ratings. Six of them sit in Surveys & Feedback Forms, alongside the long-form surveys they are the short answer to. The seventh, the Public Comment Form, sits in Government & Public Forms because a council files it as a comment — but what it collects is a Support / Oppose / Neutral position on one agenda item, which is a vote under another name.
What separates them is where the options come from and how hard the result binds. The Team Decision Poll ships the blankest ballot on the page — "Option A" through "Option D", plus "None of the above — I'll explain below" — because the question itself is typed into its own "What decision are we making?" field, and it then asks how confident you are and whether you will actively support whichever option the team chooses. The Community Vote Form goes the other way and names the proposals ("Proposal C — Mixed-use zoning amendment"), then takes a separate Support / Oppose / Abstain position on the one you picked. The Product Feature Vote puts the same eight options in front of you twice, first as a checkbox marked "select up to 3" and then as one forced choice for the next 90 days, which is how a shortlist becomes a priority. The Event Topic Vote spends its choices on logistics as much as content, adding session format — workshop, panel, keynote, live demo, fireside chat — and which day of a multi-day event suits. And the Employee Opinion Poll offers no list of things to choose between at all: its three required questions are five-point scales, from "Very confident — we're on the right track" to "Very concerned — significant changes needed".
The constraint that bites here is the option list, because on a poll the option list is the entire form. Three of the seven hand you a placeholder ballot you have to replace before the link goes out: literal "Option A" to "Option D" on the Team Decision Poll, sample proposals such as "Proposal B — Revised parking ordinance" on the Community Vote Form, sample bundles such as "Option A — Core product improvements" on the Customer Preference Poll. The other four arrive with real choice sets — twelve conference topics on the Event Topic Vote, eight named product features run twice on the Product Feature Vote, a ten-item agenda dropdown from Budget & Finance to Housing Policy on the Public Comment Form, three five-point scales on the Employee Opinion Poll — so the work there is pruning someone else's shortlist rather than filling in blanks, and on the Public Comment Form that list may already be close to what a council uses. Two things to notice while you are in there: the "(select up to 5)" in a checkbox label is wording rather than a rule, since the field accepts a list of any length and the cap is a request to voters, not something the form enforces; and formformform has no rating or scale field type, so the five-point scales on the Employee Opinion Poll are ordinary radio options you rewrite the same way as everything else.
7 templates, and when to use each
Every one is free to open, edit and publish. The line under each name is what separates it from the others here.
- Team Decision Poll
Reach for this when the question is yours to phrase — it is the only member whose choices are unlabelled placeholders, "Option A" through "Option D" with a "None of the above — I'll explain below" escape hatch, and the only one that asks how confident you are in your pick and whether you will actively support whichever option the team chooses, so eight colleagues come back as eight arguments rather than a bare count.
Collect structured team votes and reasoning before making a group decision.
7 questionsSurveys & Feedback Forms - Customer Preference Poll
Use it to ask customers what they would rather buy — it is the only member that puts a pricing model on the ballot itself, asking them to choose between a free tier with paid upgrades, a flat monthly subscription, pay-per-use, an annual discount and a one-time purchase, where the Product Feature Vote only asks whether they would pay more for the thing they picked; and it is the only member that asks for both a name and an email and leaves both optional, the email labelled "to receive results".
Discover which products, designs, and pricing models customers actually prefer.
6 questionsSurveys & Feedback Forms - Product Feature Vote
Use it for a roadmap vote where a shortlist is not decisive enough — it is the only member that runs the same eight options twice, once as a "select up to 3" checkbox and again as a single forced pick for the next 90 days, and the only one that segments voters by plan, from free through Enterprise, and asks whether they would pay more for their top choice.
Let customers vote on which product features belong on your next roadmap.
7 questionsSurveys & Feedback Forms - Event Topic Vote
Use it when the vote has to produce an agenda rather than a winner — it is the only member that votes on logistics as well as content, pairing a twelve-topic shortlist with a session-format choice and a question about which day of a multi-day event works, and its open box asks for the topics and speakers you failed to list, so the next round's option set half writes itself.
Let attendees vote on session topics and format before you finalize the agenda.
6 questionsSurveys & Feedback Forms - Community Vote Form
Use it when the tally is the output and the voters are a defined place — it is the only member that records a neighbourhood or community name against a formal Support / Oppose / Abstain position, and the only one that asks whether the voter wants an email when the results are announced, which is the promise a counted vote has to keep.
Collect community support or opposition on local proposals and civic matters.
7 questionsSurveys & Feedback Forms - Public Comment Form
Use it when a position has to go on the record instead of into a count — it is the only member that files a required written comment against an agenda item such as Land Use & Zoning or Public Safety rather than against one named proposal, the only one that asks whether the commenter wants to speak at the hearing, and the only one collecting a phone number and home address, because a hearing record has to say who spoke.
Collect official public comments for hearings, meetings, and policy decisions.
9 questionsGovernment & Public Forms - Employee Opinion Poll
Use it when you are counting sentiment rather than choices — its three required questions are five-point scales on company direction, leadership clarity and the work environment instead of a list of things to pick between, and it is the only member with no email field anywhere, its name field optional, so it can run as an unattributed floor-check with nothing but a department dropdown attached.
Gauge employee sentiment on company direction, culture, and leadership.
6 questionsSurveys & Feedback Forms
What these forms ask for
Question labels shared by more than one of the 7 templates above, counted once per template.
- Email Address3 of 7 templates
- Your Name3 of 7 templates
- Your Name (optional)2 of 7 templates
What these forms are made of
These forms ask between 6 and 9 questions each, and 36 of the 48 questions across the set are required. Field types, counted once per template:
- Long Text7 of 7 templates
- Radio7 of 7 templates
- Short Text7 of 7 templates
- Email6 of 7 templates
- Dropdown3 of 7 templates
- Checkbox2 of 7 templates
- Phone1 of 7 templates
How to build a poll and vote form
Write down the question you are actually settling before you open the editor, and put it where voters can see it — the Team Decision Poll does this with a required "What decision are we making?" field, because a poll whose question is only implied collects votes nobody can interpret a month later.
Replace the placeholder options wherever you find them — "Option B" on the Team Decision Poll, "Proposal D — Community center renovation budget" on the Community Vote Form — and make what you write mutually exclusive, so a vote for two things at once is impossible; the templates that ship a real list, such as the Event Topic Vote's twelve topics, need cutting down rather than filling in.
Add an honest way out of the choice — "None of the above — I'll explain below" on a decision poll, "Abstain" on a ballot — or the undecided will pick at random and your count will read as consensus.
Pick the field type from what you want back: a radio when one option has to win, a checkbox when you want a shortlist, and remember to state the cap in the label the way "select up to 3" does, since nothing in the form enforces it.
Decide how identifiable a voter should be, then set the fields to match — a required name and email make duplicates visible and let you chase non-voters, while an optional name reads as anonymous, though every submission still records the sender's IP address and the CSV export carries it in an IP Address column beside Submitted At; the browser string is stored too but never exported, so an anonymous poll is anonymous to the other voters, not to you.
Switch the form inactive when voting closes: the public link returns a 404 from that moment, and since there is no scheduled close date you either flip it in the dashboard yourself or call the API on a timer.
Who uses these forms
One audience per template, in the order the templates are listed above, taken from what each template names for itself.
Frequently asked questions
What actually makes this a poll rather than a survey?
The test is whether you can name the thing you will do differently once the answers are in. A poll settles one question — which option ships, which proposal passes, which topics go on the agenda — so the templates here are short: six to nine questions, three or four of them choice questions, and exactly one open text box. A survey measures several things at once and is usually run again later to see whether the numbers moved; the full surveys on the parent page, the Post-Event Survey and the Employee Satisfaction Survey, run to fourteen and thirteen questions with a block of rated statements in the middle of each. If you would keep the results as a trend line rather than act on them this week, you want a survey.
Can I stop the same person voting twice?
Not reliably, and it is better to design around that than to pretend otherwise. A published formformform form is a public URL with no login in front of it, and nothing checks whether a submission has been seen before; the only limit is a rate cap of thirty submissions a minute from one address, which stops a script and not a determined person. What you do have is evidence after the fact: require the name and email fields the way the Community Vote Form and the Team Decision Poll do, and check the results against your member list — every submission also records the sender's IP address, and the CSV export includes the IP column, so repeat entries from one machine are visible when you sort by it. For a vote where the count carries real consequences, share the link with a known list rather than posting it publicly.
Do the templates come with my options already in them?
Three of them do not, and four of them very nearly do. The Team Decision Poll ships "Option A" to "Option D", the Community Vote Form ships four sample proposals about parks, parking, zoning and a community centre, and the Customer Preference Poll's first choice question is four sample product directions — none of those can know what you are voting on, so rewriting them is the first edit after you clone. The other four arrive with real lists: twelve conference topics on the Event Topic Vote, eight named product features on the Product Feature Vote, a ten-item council agenda dropdown on the Public Comment Form, three five-point rating scales on the Employee Opinion Poll. Those are still someone else's list rather than yours, but the work is cutting and renaming rather than starting from an empty field.
Can voters see the results as they come in?
No. After someone submits, they see the thank-you message you wrote, or whatever page you redirect them to — there is no running tally on the public form and no results chart to share back. Counting happens on your side, in the responses view or in a CSV export, and announcing is a thing you do yourself. That is why the Community Vote Form asks "Would you like to be notified when voting results are announced?": it is collecting the list of people to email once you have counted, not switching on an automatic result.
Can I let people pay to vote, or attach a file to their vote?
Add a Stripe-powered payment field for an entry fee or dues, and use an Upload field when voters need to attach a proposal document or site photo. Uploads are capped at 2 MB per file and are encrypted on encrypted forms; because the template generator cannot seed one, add it in the editor after cloning. Check the rules that apply before using payment as part of a ballot, raffle or prize draw.
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