"polls" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to survey research conducted to collect people's opinions or to measure public opinion on a particular issue. For example, "The polls suggest that most people are in favor of the new legislation."
Among the last set of polls, three showed the main parties level-pegging, three had the Conservatives in front by a single point and one gave Labour a two-point advantage.
More Guardian election comment from Cif at the polls.
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Sensing further instability, the vast majority of Greeks – led by the business sector – have urged the government to compromise, according to polls.
The Guardian's average of polls aims to best represent a snapshot of the polls as they stand.
This year Ohioans are voting early once again, and most of them are voting to reelect the president, according to the latest polls.
TNS, which is regarded as more cautious than other pollsters, said its findings suggested the gap between the SNP and Scottish Labour is much narrower than the 20-point lead given to the nationalists in a spate of other recent polls, but that it was still gloomy news for the Scottish Labour leader, Jim Murphy.
And much of the canvassing data was as duff as the opinion polls turned out to be.
The same of course is also true of the Labour-SNP bloc of seats: even if Nicola Sturgeon's party were to win in 30-40 constituencies, and not in the 50 or more implied in the polls, most of those seats would be staying with Labour.
Yet for all of this effort, the polls have barely moved in months, a hung parliament looks inevitable and the manifestos have been written as coalition bargaining positions rather than binding promises.
