7 Best WordPress Voting Plugins for 2026 (Free Poll Plugins Compared)

YOP Poll offers the best balance of free voting controls and readable results. Democracy Poll is a simpler option, and Forminator makes sense if you also need forms. Check repeat-vote protection before using any plugin for a competition: some free defaults accepted every repeat vote in our tests.

Repeat-vote protection

We tried the same poll as two accounts and a logged-out visitor, all sharing one network. YOP Poll’s cookie and account checks blocked returning voters but could not stop a visitor using a fresh browser. TotalPoll Lite’s default cookie protection behaved similarly.

Democracy Poll blocked the repeat attempts while allowing the second account. Forminator’s IP check and WP-Polls’ cookie-plus-IP default also blocked that legitimate second account. Poll Maker’s defaults and free TS Poll allowed every retry.

The trade-off matters: IP limits can exclude people in the same home, office or school, while cookies are easy to clear. Account-based checks are stronger when voters can log in. No plugin’s presence alone makes a poll suitable for a consequential vote.

1. YOP Poll: Best Free Voting Plugin Overall

YOP Poll’s results view after a visitor voted on our test install.

YOP Poll has been on WordPress.org since 2012 and was last updated in September 2026. It gives you the most free control over who can vote.

Setting it up. The builder has Design, Elements and Options tabs. Only the Classic template is free, but you can change its colors, borders and spacing. A text question and a single-line text field are free; 13 other elements, such as image and video answers, are Pro.

Stopping repeat votes. This is where YOP shines, with one catch: the default is “Don’t Block”. You have to choose a method yourself. The free options are By Cookie, By IP and By User Id, with a block period of forever or a set time. Fingerprint and email checks are Pro. The free version also includes a captcha (its own, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha or Cloudflare Turnstile), scheduling and a GDPR/CCPA option.

The Access options we used in YOP Poll: guests and logged-in users can vote, blocked by cookie and user ID.

What we saw. With cookie and user ID blocking on, voter1’s second attempt and the visitor’s second attempt both just showed the results. voter2 could still vote even though everyone shared an IP. A fresh browser could vote again, because cookie checks can’t catch that.

Two small surprises: when both guest and logged-in voting are on, clicking Vote shows a choice between “Anonymous Vote” and “Sign in with WordPress”, even to someone already logged in. And by default, results are shown to guests but not to registered users, so tick both boxes in the Results tab.

Upsells and price. No dashboard notices, just an “Upgrade to Pro” menu item and PRO badges. YOP lists Pro at $27 for one site, $97 for five and $197 for unlimited sites, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. The pricing page does not say whether that is a yearly fee.

Best for: most blogs and community sites that want a real one-vote-per-person poll for free.

2. Democracy Poll: Best Simple Poll With Smart Defaults

Democracy Poll’s results after voting, with the Revote button, on our test install.

Democracy Poll is a free plugin by Timur Kamaev with no Pro version and no upsells. It lives under Settings, not in its own menu.

It was the only plugin in our test that let both account holders vote while blocking every repeat attempt, without changing a setting. Logged-in users are checked by their WordPress account, so voter2 could vote even on a shared connection. Logged-out visitors are limited to one vote per IP address, so the fresh browser was blocked. If that is too strict for your audience, one setting allows several votes from the same IP and tells visitors apart by a browser fingerprint instead.

A few defaults to know about:

• Visitors can add their own answers. “Allow users to add answers” is on for new polls. Turn it off if you want a fixed list.
• Revote is on. After voting, people see a Revote button to change their answer. On our shared IP, a second visitor in a fresh browser also saw Revote, and using it cancelled the first visitor’s vote and replaced it. Turn Revote off if many of your visitors share a network.
• The sample poll has made-up votes. Activation adds “What is the capital city of France?” with 178 votes already filled in. Delete it before you go live.

Results show as bars with vote counts and a tick next to your own choice. There’s also a widget and a mode for sites that use page caching.

Best for: small sites that want a lightweight, free poll that behaves sensibly with no setup.

3. Forminator: Best if You Also Need Forms

Forminator’s Voting Limit settings, here switched to Browser Cookie (the default is User IP).

Forminator by WPMU DEV is a free form builder with 600,000+ active installs that also does polls and quizzes. If you need a contact form too, it saves you a plugin. Compare it with our top WordPress form plugin picks or our Gravity Forms review if forms are the main job.

Setting it up. The poll editor walks you through Details, Appearance, Behavior and more. Five design styles, custom colors, custom CSS and image answers are all free. Nothing in the poll editor is locked behind Pro.

Check the defaults. New polls hide results (“Do not show”) and hide vote counts. Switch Results Display to “Show after voted” and Vote Count to “Show” if you want visitors to see the outcome. The voting limit is once per user, checked by IP.

What we saw. With the default IP check, voter1 got “Your vote has been saved” and a bar chart. After that, voter2 and both visitor browsers were told “You have already voted for this poll”, because they shared voter1’s IP. Switching to Browser Cookie let them vote, but voter1 could then vote again from a new browser. There is no option to limit by WordPress account.

Upsells. One dashboard notice about free templates, a “Get Forminator Pro” menu link, and an Add-ons page for Pro features like PDFs and geolocation. Pro starts at $50 a year for one site, $75 for three and $100 for ten, according to WPMU DEV.

Best for: sites that want forms and polls in one free plugin.

4. WP-Polls: The Classic, Fully Free Option

WP-Polls results seen by a visitor who was blocked from voting, on our test install.

WP-Polls by Lester Chan has been around since 2006 and has 40,000+ active installs. It’s completely free and was last updated in September 2026. It now needs WordPress 6.8 and PHP 8.2, so check your host first.

The Add Poll screen is a plain WordPress form: question, answers, multiple-answer option and start and end dates. You get a shortcode, a block and a widget. Activation also adds a sample poll, “How Is My Site?”.

Repeat-vote rules are global, not per poll. Who can vote defaults to registered users and guests, and the check defaults to “Cookie and IP Address”. Other choices are cookie only, IP only, username, or no check. On our shared IP, the default blocked everyone after voter1. “Check By Username” let voter2 vote, but then guests could not vote at all, which the plugin’s own code confirms.

Results show each answer with a percentage, vote count and bar, plus “Total Voters”. There are no upsells and no admin notices.

Best for: members-only sites (use the username check) or anyone who wants a no-frills, ad-free poll.

5. Poll Maker by AYS: Most Poll Types, Most Upsells

Poll Maker’s Limitations tab with the per-user limit turned on.

Poll Maker offers seven poll types: Choosing, Rating, Text and Voting are free, while Dropdown, Range and Versus are Pro. Results use a Google bar chart by default with counts and percentages; pie and column charts are Pro.

The problem is the defaults. Every limit is off, and our test accepted all six votes from four people. You can turn on “Maximum number of attempts per user” for free and pick how to spot repeat voters: IP (the default), user ID, cookie, or cookie and IP. With user ID, both subscribers were blocked from voting twice, but a visitor could keep voting. “Only for logged in users”, user roles and a password are also free. Session limits, limits by country and custom attempt counts are Pro.

This plugin had the most upsells in our test: an Upgrade button, a “Get 50% discount” link, a large “Back to School Sale” banner, a green “PRO features” menu, Upgrade tags on locked settings and a paid “Add fake votes” option.

Price. AYS sells one-time licenses: Business at $75 (5 sites, 12 months of updates), Developer at $250 and Agency at $450. When we checked, the page showed lower sale prices under an “Until September 1” label.

Best for: people who want rating or versus polls and don’t mind the sales pitches. Turn on a voting limit before you publish.

6. TotalPoll Lite: Fine for Casual Polls

TotalPoll Lite from TotalSuite has a tidy tabbed editor. Only text answers are free; image, video, audio and HTML answers are Pro.

In the free version, repeat votes are blocked by cookie only, for 3,600 minutes (about 60 hours) by default. IP and logged-in user checks have PRO badges. On our test site that meant same-browser repeats were blocked and fresh browsers got through. Results showed percentages only, sorted by votes.

Two warning signs: WordPress.org says TotalPoll Lite was last updated in September 2025 and tested up to WordPress 6.8. On our WordPress 7.1.2 site, with PHP warnings switched on, its edit screen showed a notice about a function WordPress deprecated in version 6.7. Polls still worked. TotalPoll Pro costs $59 a year for one site, according to TotalSuite.

Best for: casual “fun” polls where a few repeat votes don’t matter.

7. TS Poll: Good Looks, No Vote Limit in the Free Version

TS Poll’s Vote Options, where “Vote Once” carries a Pro badge.

TS Poll was formerly called Responsive Poll. It’s still made by Total Soft and now has standard, image, video and versus polls. The template picker lists 46 designs, 26 of them marked Premium. Importing one creates a sample poll that you edit in a full-screen builder.

It looks good, but “Vote Once” is a Pro feature. In the free version anyone can vote as often as they like: our test recorded six votes from four people. The plugin’s upgrade page lists Pro at $15 for one site with six months of updates, $25 for five sites, and a Developer plan. The vendor’s website did not load when we tried it in October 2026, so we could not check those prices anywhere else.

Best for: decorative polls where accuracy doesn’t matter, or buyers who plan to pay for Pro.

Hosted Poll Services: Opinion Stage and Crowdsignal

These plugins connect WordPress to an outside service. You build polls on the vendor’s platform, and nothing works until you create an account there. We installed both but did not sign up, so this section is based on the vendors’ published details.

• Opinion Stage (6,000+ installs) makes polls, quizzes and surveys, including with AI. Its plugin opens on a “Get Started” or “Login” screen. The free plan allows 25 responses a month, and Pro starts at $32 a month for 1,000 responses, according to Opinion Stage.
• Crowdsignal Dashboard (200,000+ installs) is by Automattic. The plugin says its features are “unavailable until you link your Crowdsignal.com account”. The free plan collects up to 2,500 “signals” (responses). The vendor lists restrictions against duplicate responses as a Premium feature, at $25 a month, or $15 a month billed yearly. The plugin has a 2.7 out of 5 rating on WordPress.org.

Choose one of these if you already use the service or want poll data kept off your own server.

Form Builders With Poll Add-Ons

If you already pay for a form builder, check its poll features before adding another plugin:

• WPForms: the Surveys and Polls addon comes with the Pro plan (listed at $399 a year, shown on sale for $199.50 when we checked) and Elite.
• Gravity Forms: the Poll Add-On needs an Elite license ($259 a year) or a Nonprofit license. See our Gravity Forms review and our list of Gravity Forms alternatives.
• Fluent Forms: if you’re comparing form builders, read our Fluent Forms review.

For a fuller community setup with voting, profiles and groups, see our BuddyPress alternatives.

More hands-on videos

Watch our YOP Poll Free review for voting, results and repeat-vote limits.

Watch our Democracy Poll Free review for voting and revote limits.

Watch our TotalPoll Pro review for saved polls, voting limits, phone results and CSV export.

Watch our Opinion Stage review for WordPress poll embedding, repeat-vote limits and response exports.