Polling is one of the easiest ways to arrive at a decision, be it a get together with friends or family or a Friday evening destination with colleagues. While Telegram has a built-in polling feature that works on channels and groups, you can also use one of the many third-party polling bots available on Telegram, some of which even allow you to have some fun with the polls with features that allow you to create a quiz.

In this article, we will guide you on how to create a poll on Telegram via the built-in feature and also third party telegram bots.

How to create a poll in Telegram channels and groups?

While you can’t directly create a poll on personal chats via the built-in poll feature of Telegram, you can forward them after publishing the poll on a group or channel.

Go to a channel that you own or a group and follow the steps mentioned below to create a poll in Telegram.

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Tap on the Attachment icon.
Then tap on the Poll icon (fourth icon from the left; on the bottom of your screen).
Then add questions and options for the poll.
Then tap on Create button to create the poll.

You can also toggle the buttons besides Multiple Answers and Quiz Mode, if you want to enable the voters to choose more than one option and play a Q&A poll mode with only one correct answer, respectively.

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Forwarding and stopping Telegram poll

To forward the poll, tap on it and select the Forward option (refer to the screenshot below) from the dropdown menu. On the next page, you can select a contact whom you want to forward the Telegram poll.

To stop a poll, tap on the poll and then in the menu tap on the Stop Poll option.

How to create a universal poll in Telegram?

While this method allows you to create and share polls on individual chats as well as channels, this is the only way to create a poll directly in personal chats on Telegram.

If you don’t like the built-in Telegram poll feature, you can also use one of the available third-party bots for polling on Telegram, which have additional features.

Tap on the Search icon.
Then search @vote.
You will get many bots in that tap on VoteBot.

Tap on the Start button to start creating your poll.
After that, you will get to option whether to make your poll public or anonymous. The difference is that in a public poll you will see the names who voted beside the option they chose and in an anonymous poll, you cannot see the names
Then Bot will ask to send your question on which you want to create a poll. Type your question and tap on the Send button

Type your first preferred choice and tap on the Send button. For example, if your question is “Which is your preferred travel destination?” your first option could be Beaches.
Then type your next choice and tap on the Send button. If you only want to give two option then you can stop here and if you want to give more options then continue typing other options and tap on the Send button.
Type /done and tap on the send button.

Your poll is created. To publish your poll tap on Publish poll option just below your created poll.
On the next screen, your contacts will appear. Select the contacts with whom you want to share this poll. You can publish your poll to any channel or group or any individual contact.
After opening the chat with the channel a link will appear in your message box tap on that link.
Your poll is shared in the chat

There are many Bots available to create a poll on Telegram. If you want you can search and select other bots to create a poll like “@pollbot and @GroupAgreeBot. While most of the basic functionality of and the steps you need to follow the create a poll using any of the aforementioned third-party poll bots on Telegram is similar, you might find some unique features on some of these poll bots.

Remember, that these are third-party bots, which aren’t owned or developed by Telegram. So, be careful about the information you share on these polls created via third-party polling bots.

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Akash Singh