A poll found that Dryden's potential pool of support exceeded that of his opponents, due mainly to his former NHL career.

In 2004, Roy was selected as the greatest goaltender in NHL history by a panel of 41 writers, coupled with a simultaneous fan poll.

In 1981, the NHL changed the format of awarding the trophy, instead giving it to the goaltender deemed best in the league based on a poll of NHL general managers.

In a 2007 poll of 283 NHL players, 66. 4 % said that Sean Avery was the most hated player in the league.

A Canadian public opinion poll conducted by Ipsos-Reid near the start of the lockout found that 52 percent of those polled blamed NHL players for the lockout and only 21 percent blamed the owners of NHL teams.

A 2010 Sports Illustrated poll of 229 NHL players saw 21 % of respondents name Phaneuf as the most overrated player in the league, three times as many votes as any other player.

A Sports Illustrated poll of hockey experts in 1998 rated Kennedy as having the best face-off skills in the history of the NHL.

The April 27, 1998, issue of Sport Illustrated published " The Best Ever on the Draw ", a poll of NHL experts of the top ten players of all time for skills on the faceoff, and Kennedy was ranked at # 1.

A 1990 poll of NHL players named him as the league's most underrated player.

Gairy won re-election in Grenada's first general election as an independent state in 1976 ; however, the opposition New Jewel Movement refused to recognize the result, claiming the poll was fraudulent, and so began working towards the overthrow of the Gairy regime by revolutionary means.

The SDP won the support of large sections of the media, and for most of 1981 and early 1982 its opinion poll ratings suggested that it could at least overtake Labour and possibly win a general election, as the Tories were proving unpopular because of the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher, which had seen unemployment reach a postwar high.

In 2005, he was voted the 4th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

A worsening economy, burgeoning national debt, and growing public antipathy towards Trudeau's perceived arrogance caused his poll numbers to fall rapidly in the mid and late 1970s Trudeau delayed calling the 31st Canadian general election as long as he could, but was forced to call one in the spring of 1979.

In 2005, he was voted the 7th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

A poll at the time suggested that 74 % of the UK population agreed with the Powell's opinions and his supporters claim that this large public following that Powell attracted may have helped the Conservatives to win the 1970 general election, and perhaps cost them the February 1974 general election, at which Powell turned his back on the Conservatives by endorsing a vote for Labour, who returned as a minority government in early March following a hung parliament.

In 2005, he was voted the greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

In 2005, he was voted the 11th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

Ebert has expressed his general distaste for " top ten " lists, and all movie lists in general, but contributed a top ten list to the 2012 Sight and Sound Directors ' poll.

In September 2006, he was voted by the general public as number 1 in ITV's poll of TV's Greatest Stars.

In a poll conducted by Ipsos-Reid following the first prorogation of the 40th parliament on 4 December 2008, it was found that 42 % of the sample group thought the prime minister was head of state, while 33 % felt it was the governor general.

In 2005, she was voted the 87th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

In 2005, he was voted the 2nd-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

At provincial level, their best results came in Guipúzcoa where the party topped the poll in the 1989 general election.

Although it is debatable whether University League Tables can accurately compare the quality of small specialised research institutions such as SOAS to general universities with tens of thousands of students and departments in nearly every academic discipline, or even to other specialised institutes with completely different kinds of focuses, in 2005, SOAS placed 4th among United Kingdom universities in a Guardian poll.

A general election was eventually called for February 1948, Lynch topped the poll for the Cork Borough constituency and became a Fianna Fáil TD in the 13th Dáil.

In 2005, he was voted the 52nd-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

* In 2005, he was voted the 101st-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

Sixty-eight percent of voters had heard of the general election campaign results of the opinion poll in 1979.

The Conservatives had recently won the 1992 general election, and the Gallup poll for September showed a 2. 5 % Conservative lead.

By the October poll, following Black Wednesday, their share of the intended vote in the poll had plunged from 43 % to 29 %, while Labour jumped into a lead which they held almost continuously ( except for several brief periods such as during the 2000 Fuel Protests ) for the next 14 years, during which time they won three consecutive general elections under the leadership of Tony Blair ( who became party leader in 1994 following the death of his predecessor John Smith ).

In 2005, he was voted the 26th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

The city managers estimate that the city has a poll factor of 2 to 1, meaning that the city has nearly 5000 jobs, while only having 2500 residents.

In a Baseball America poll, several NWL managers called Willis Boise's best player.

He helped lead the Angels to five AL West championships ( 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 ), and was voted as one of the most feared hitters in baseball in a 2008 poll of all 30 major league managers.

Baseball America named him the top prospect in the league in a poll of managers.

In a poll of American League managers prior to the 1992 All-Star Game, Tettleton came out on top as their choice to be the starting All-Star catcher however, the fans voted for Sandy Alomar, Jr.

Rebrov also topped the league in points, with goals and assists – and was named player of the season according to a poll of team managers and captains.

According to a survey released by the " Beirut Center for Research and Information " on July 26 during the 2006 Lebanon War, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hezbollah's " retaliatory attacks on northern Israel ", a rise of 29 percentage points from a similar poll conducted in February.

A poll in August 2006 by ABC News and the Washington Post found that 68 % of the 1, 002 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the civilian casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 31 % who blamed Israel to some degree.

A three-country poll conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion in July 2010 found that Canadians swear more often than Americans and Britons when talking to friends, while Britons are more likely than Canadians and Americans to hear strangers swear during a conversation.

New Zealand imposed a poll tax on Chinese immigrants during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

A November Gallup poll published eight days before the December 11 budget reported that their popularity was down from 36 % during the summer to 28 %, with the party 19 points behind the Liberals, giving the latter the popular support to initiate the non-confidence motion.

According to a CBS poll, 92 % of Panamanian adults supported the U. S. incursion, and 76 % wished that U. S. forces had invaded in October during the coup.

If none of the candidates obtains such majority, a second poll will take place 45 days later, at which the population will decide between the two candidates that had the best results during the first poll.

A straw poll conducted during the county Republican Party primary election, showed strong opposition to the idea countywide.

Some minorities living in England have stated that they still view the flag with suspicion: during a poll of readers of New Nation, " most black people interviewed said they felt alienated by the flag of St George and still associated it with the BNP ".

In 1987, Ron Brown, then Labour MP for Leith, picked up the mace during a debate on the poll tax, and threw it to the floor.

A March 2003 Gallup poll conducted during the first few days of the war showed that 5 % of the population had protested or made a public opposition against the war compared to 21 % who attended a rally or made a public display to support the war.

The National Sleep Foundation's 1998 Sleep in America poll showed that up to 25 percent of pregnant women developed RLS during the third trimester.

In 2005, during the time of the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, support for the monarchy dipped slightly with one poll showing that 65 % of people would support keeping the monarchy if there were a referendum on the issue, with 22 % saying they favoured a republic.

Out of the 20 countries examined, three prohibit the publication during the entire period of campaigns, while others prohibit it for a shorter term such as the polling period or the final 48 hours before a poll closes.

Further, during the counting and tallying of votes conducted by the Commission on Elections ( COMELEC ), 30 poll computer technicians walked out to dispute and contest the alleged election-rigging done in favor of Marcos.

However, during the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381, rebels, led by Wat Tyler, inflamed by opposition to the poll tax promoted by John of Gaunt, systematically demolished the Savoy and everything in it.

According to one poll his approval rating dropped steadily during his first year in office.

This protracted procedural battle did not seem to go well for the Liberals when, in an opinion poll released on June 12, 2006 but conducted largely during the height of the procedural infighting, the Tories took the lead over the Liberals for the first time in any poll since August 2003 with a margin of 45 % to 39 % for Lord's Conservatives.

In mid-September, after Fletcher issued the pardons, a Courier-Journal poll found Fletcher's approval rating at 38 percent, tying the lowest rating reached by his predecessor, Paul E. Patton, during the sex scandal that tarnished his administration.