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Methodology

Every number on fans.vote is a real vote cast by a real person. Here's exactly how the data is collected, counted, and what it can — and can't — tell you.

Where the votes come from

Polls are created and run by Facebook pages and profiles — brands, communities, sports teams, TV shows, musicians — through the fans.vote polling platform. Voters participate as themselves: most votes are cast by people signed in with their Facebook identity, which is what makes ballot-stuffing hard and the demographic breakdowns possible. The archive spans hundreds of thousands of communities and tens of millions of votes.

How votes are counted

  • One vote per signed-in person per poll — enforced against the voter's identity, not a cookie.
  • Anonymous voting (where a poll allows it) is rate-limited and de-duplicated; signed-in votes are the trusted core of every tally.
  • Percentages are computed from raw counts and shown alongside the exact number of votes — we publish the numerator and the denominator, always.
  • Results are never edited, weighted, or projected. What people clicked is what you see.

Demographics

Gender, age, and location breakdowns come from the profile data voters shared when they voted. They are shown only as aggregates — never per person. The public sees the country breakdown and short summary lines (such as an overall gender lean); the full gender and age breakdown is visible only to the poll's owner. Coverage varies by poll: some polls have rich demographic data, others only country-level or none. When a breakdown is shown, the share of votes it covers is shown with it.

The honest limits

These are self-selected samples, not representative surveys. A poll run by a football club's page reflects that club's audience — not the general public. That makes the data excellent for "what did this community think?" and directional for broader sentiment, but it is not a probability sample and we don't pretend otherwise. Treat every result as: N people who chose to vote, drawn from the community the poll ran in.

Citing fans.vote

You're welcome to cite any poll — please link the poll page and attribute fans.vote. Suggested format:

"In a fans.vote Facebook poll of N respondents, X% chose Y." — fans.vote, [poll URL]