<p>There is a distinct meaning for polling as most people would use this either for opinion polls or for the action of taking part in an election (although I am not sure if that is used in all anglophone jurisdictions). The concept of survey is much broader. Nonetheless I think <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/polling" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;polling&#39;" rel="tag">polling</a> could well be made a synonym of <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/survey" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;survey&#39;" rel="tag">survey</a></p>
