July 11, 2026 · 8 min read
How to read and export your poll results in PollsLive
Where to find your results in Studio, how to read the breakdown by question, and how to export everything to Excel or a PDF report. Step by step, with screenshots.
Collecting answers is the easy part. This is where you actually make sense of them: where results live, how to read them, and how to get the raw data out when you need it for a report or a spreadsheet.
Where results live
Every poll has its own results view in Studio. Open a poll from your dashboard and click Results (or scroll to the Results section of the editor). You can also see participation across every poll from the Results item in the left-hand Studio nav.
Read the top-line numbers
Three tiles give you the shape of things at a glance: Status (Open, Closed, or Scheduled), Responses (how many answers you have collected), and Last activity (when the most recent answer landed). Hit Refresh to pull the latest - this panel does not auto-poll, so refresh after a session to see the final tally.
Read the breakdown by question
Under Breakdown by question, each slide gets its own chart: bar charts with percentages and counts for multiple choice and quiz (the correct answer is marked with a tick), distributions for scale questions, and a list or cloud for open text. It is the same picture your audience saw live, now sitting still so you can study it.
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Review a past live session
If you presented the poll live, each session is listed under Past live sessions with its PIN and participant count. Click View recap to reopen the slide-by-slide results and the end-of-session summary, including who was most active and who answered fastest.
Share or export the data
Once a poll is published you get an Open public results link (a read-only version at pollslive.com/p/your-poll) and a Copy results link button for sharing. For the raw data, use Export Excel to download a spreadsheet - one row per respondent with every answer - or PDF report for a formatted summary. Both exports are on the Pro plan; on the free plan the buttons prompt you to upgrade.
The rule of thumb: read it in Studio, share the public link with your team, and export to Excel only when you need to slice the raw numbers yourself.
That is everything the results view can do. If you have not run a poll yet, start with building one from scratch or running a live session.
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