What's in this template
One question and five example places. Swap in your own, or switch the poll type to Ranked Choice if you have four or more similar options and want a winner with genuine majority support.
When to switch it to ranked choice
Similar options split the vote
Two Italian places on the list will split the Italian vote and hand the win to something a minority actually wanted. Ranked choice eliminates the weaker one and moves those votes onward.
35% is not a majority
In a five-way vote the winner often has barely a third of the room behind it, meaning two-thirds wanted something else. That's how you end up with a lunch nobody's happy about.
People vote strategically
When there's one pick, people abandon their real preference to block an option they dislike. Ranking removes the incentive to game it.
Quiet preferences stay hidden
Second and third choices tell you what the room would happily accept. A single-choice poll throws that information away.
Settle it in three steps
Swap in your options
Four to six places is the sweet spot. Include the one someone always suggests, so it gets tested properly.
Share the link
Drop it in Slack or Teams. Voting takes about ten seconds and needs no account.
Close it and book
Results update live. Close the poll once everyone's voted and book the winner.
The data behind ranked choice
We simulated 660,000 group votes to measure how often single-choice voting picks a different winner. With five options the plurality winner held no outright majority 84.3% of the time, and the two methods disagreed in 28.7% of votes. The gap widens as options increase.
Read the full study → · methodology and code published.