Why your X poll might not be showing up, and what to do if the vote count seems low

When using the poll feature on X, some users are experiencing an issue where the number of votes displayed is clearly lower than the number of followers who say they voted.

This article explains the issue in detail and what you can do about it.

X polls are currently affected by an issue where votes are not reflected

X has a feature that lets users add polls to posts and have others vote from multiple choices.

Normally, when someone votes, the total vote count increases and the vote is reflected in the poll results.

However, recent versions of X have been affected by issues such as the following:

• The vote count does not increase even though someone voted
• Multiple people say they voted, but the displayed vote count is clearly too low
• The displayed number of votes is lower than the actual number of participants
• The voter’s screen shows that they have voted, but on other people’s screens, the vote does not appear to be reflected in the count

When I checked this using a test account, a poll that should have had at least three votes was shown as having only one vote, and the notification shown when the poll ended also displayed one vote.

The same behavior occurred on the Android version of X, X Lite, and the web client, so this appears to be an issue on X’s server side rather than a bug in a specific app.

Because of this issue, polls conducted using X may show fewer votes than were actually cast, which can lead to inaccurate results.

I confirmed the issue in the following environment, but because it also occurs on the web client, it is likely reproducible regardless of environment.

• Google Pixel 8
• Android 17
• Google Chrome v148
• X Beta 11.92.0-beta.0
• X Lite 11.96.0-release.05

There is currently no reliable workaround

At the moment, X has not made any official announcement about the issue where votes are not reflected in X polls, and there is no reliable workaround.

It is difficult to recount votes that were not reflected after the fact. As long as you are using X’s poll feature, the displayed vote count may be lower than the actual number of votes.

If the total number of votes in a poll is large enough, a small number of unreflected votes may not significantly affect the outcome. However, if the total vote count is low, the poll results cannot be considered reliable.

Use Google Forms or another tool if you need an accurate vote count

As described above, some votes are currently not being reflected in X polls. Unless you ask every person who responded to the poll to tell you their choice in a reply, there is no way to obtain accurate results.

X polls also have another issue in which the order of poll choices may change automatically.

Why X poll choices change order: causes and workarounds

Have you ever created a poll on X (Twitter) and then, after a while, found that the order of the choices had been rearranged and the voting order had become scrambled? This article explains the cause of the problem where the order of choices in X polls gets rearranged on its own and how to deal with it.

April 10, 2026

If you need accurate results, I recommend using an external survey tool such as Google Forms instead of X’s poll feature.

Google Forms is a free survey tool provided by Google. In addition to simple voting similar to X polls, it also supports features such as multiple-choice responses and free-text answers.

On the other hand, it has some drawbacks: voters cannot check the results on the spot, the form creator needs to publish the results manually, and requiring users to open an external site may make it harder to collect votes.

Until the issue with X polls is fixed, you should decide whether to use X polls or an external service based on whether convenience or accuracy matters more.

Conclusion

X polls are currently affected by an issue where the vote count appears lower than expected even though people have voted.

If the vote count remains low even after checking both the web and app versions, there is no reliable way for the poster to fix it.

If you need an accurate vote count, you will need to use an external survey tool such as Google Forms instead of X’s poll feature.