Pollster · Commercial firm

Gallup

AAPOR Transparency Initiative since January 1, 20152Research draft
Polls since 2024
30
Latest poll ended
April 15, 2026
Record vs. results, relative
R+1.7

Polls from the VoteHub polling API, used under CC BY 4.0. Each result links to the pollster's or sponsor's own release. Imported once a day; a poll VoteHub later changes keeps its earlier version on record here.

§1About

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Gallup describes itself as a global analytics and advisory firm grounded in public opinion survey research, and its media center calls Gallup, Inc. a private, employee-owned company based in Washington, D.C.3,4 Its founder page says George Gallup founded its precursor, the American Institute of Public Opinion, in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1935.5 Its website names Jon Clifton as chief executive.6

Kind
Commercial firm3,4
Founded
19355

§2Who it works with

Why this matters: Owners, news partners and the firms behind a poll's interviews shape what gets asked, how, and what gets published.

Polls regularly for

  • Knight Foundation. A 2020 Gallup post describes the American Views: Trust, Media and Democracy study as a Gallup/Knight Foundation survey and compares its results with an earlier 2017 edition.7

Founded by

  • George Gallup (1935). Gallup's founder page says George Gallup founded the American Institute of Public Opinion, its precursor, in 1935.5

Led by

  • Jon Clifton. Gallup's biography page names Jon Clifton as its chief executive.6

§3Whom it works for

Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.

Says it does no work for parties or candidates. Gallup's founder page says George Gallup resolved to do no polling paid for or sponsored by special-interest groups such as the Republican and Democratic parties, and that Gallup still follows that principle.5

Of its 30 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor8.

§4How its numbers compare with other polls

Why this matters: A firm whose polls run steadily to one side of everyone else's is worth reading alongside others.

Each of its polls since the 2024 election is compared with other pollsters' polls of the same question whose field period ended within 14 days, each other pollster counted once8. The figure is the average gap, with a 95% margin. This compares it with other polls, not with the truth: the others can be the ones that are off.

Net approval: Congress
−26.6 points (±4.1) across 13 polls, against other polls of the same question.
Net approval: Donald Trump
−7.8 points (±1.9) across 12 polls, against other polls of the same question.

D+ means its polls showed Democrats doing better than other polls did; R+, Republicans. A figure from fewer than 5 polls isn't shown.

§5Record against results

Why this matters: The one test that doesn't depend on other polls: how close a firm's final polls came to what voters did.

From FiveThirtyEight's final public data9,10: general-election polls between a Democrat and a Republican in the last three weeks before each election, compared with the certified result. FiveThirtyEight rated each name polls were published under separately. Across all 8,957 such polls, the average miss was D+0.7, so the relative figure takes out the misses every pollster shared that year.

Error is the poll's D−R margin minus the result's; D+ means it showed Democrats doing better than they did.
Published asPollsElectionsAverage missRelative to other pollsTypical size of miss538's last rating
Gallup701998–2018R+1.3R+1.74.0 pts2.5 of 3

ABC News closed FiveThirtyEight in March 2025; its data stops at the 2022 elections. 2026 results will be added once states certify them.

§6Documented findings

Why this matters: Only findings by a professional body, a court, a regulator, an aggregator's own published decision, or the pollster itself are listed, each cited to that decision.

  • U.S. Department of Justice, July 15, 2013. The Justice Department announced on July 15, 2013 that Gallup agreed to pay $10.5 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act and the Procurement Integrity Act that it overstated labor hours in proposals to the U.S. Mint and the State Department and negotiated employment with a FEMA official to obtain a subcontract. The release says the claims were allegations only with no determination of liability, and that Gallup also entered a non-prosecution agreement with a $50,000 penalty and an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, which then lifted Gallup's suspension from federal contracting.11
  • Gallup, November 9, 2020. Gallup wrote on November 9, 2020 that a weighting error in its 2020 Gallup/Knight Foundation American Views study gave college-educated respondents too much weight. It said it corrected and reissued the report, that none of the eight major conclusions changed, that some comparisons with 2017 were removed, and that it was adding independent checks of its weighting.7

§7Its polls

The 100 most recent polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
April 1–April 15, 2026Job approval · CongressDisapprove 86 · Approve 101,001 A
March 2–March 18, 2026Job approval · CongressDisapprove 79 · Approve 161,001 A
February 2–February 16, 2026Job approval · CongressDisapprove 80 · Approve 161,001 A
January 2–January 17, 2026Job approval · CongressDisapprove 78 · Approve 181,001 A
December 1–December 15, 2025Job approval · JD VanceDisapprove 60 · Approve 391,016 A
December 1–December 15, 2025Job approval · CongressDisapprove 80 · Approve 171,016 A
December 1–December 15, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 59 · Approve 361,016 A
November 3–November 25, 2025Job approval · CongressDisapprove 80 · Approve 141,321 A
November 3–November 25, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 60 · Approve 361,321 A
October 1–October 16, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 54 · Approve 411,000 A
October 1–October 16, 2025Job approval · CongressDisapprove 79 · Approve 151,000 A
September 2–September 16, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 56 · Approve 401,000 A
September 2–September 16, 2025Job approval · Supreme CourtDisapprove 52 · Approve 421,000 A
September 2–September 16, 2025Job approval · CongressDisapprove 71 · Approve 261,000 A
August 1–August 20, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 56 · Approve 401,094 A
July 7–July 21, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 58 · Approve 371,002 A
July 7–July 21, 2025Job approval · CongressDisapprove 67 · Approve 261,002 A
July 7–July 21, 2025Job approval · Supreme CourtDisapprove 56 · Approve 391,002 A
July 7–July 21, 2025Favorability · Donald TrumpUnfavorable 57 · Favorable 411,002 A
June 2–June 19, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 57 · Approve 401,000 A
May 1–May 18, 2025Job approval · CongressDisapprove 65 · Approve 261,003 A
May 1–May 18, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 53 · Approve 431,003 A
April 1–April 14, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 53 · Approve 441,006 A
March 3–March 16, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 53 · Approve 431,002 A
February 3–February 16, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 51 · Approve 451,004 A
February 3–February 16, 2025Job approval · CongressDisapprove 65 · Approve 291,004 A
January 21–January 27, 2025Favorability · JD VanceFavorable 42 · Unfavorable 401,001 A
January 21–January 27, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 48 · Approve 471,001 A
December 2–December 18, 2024Job approval · CongressDisapprove 77 · Approve 171,003 A
November 6–November 20, 2024Job approval · CongressDisapprove 74 · Approve 191,001 A
October 14–October 27, 2024Favorability · JD VanceUnfavorable 48 · Favorable 391,007 A
October 1–October 12, 2024Job approval · CongressDisapprove 77 · Approve 161,023 A
September 16–September 28, 2024Favorability · JD VanceUnfavorable 44 · Favorable 371,023 A
September 3–September 15, 2024Favorability · JD VanceUnfavorable 47 · Favorable 361,007 A
September 3–September 15, 2024Job approval · Supreme CourtDisapprove 51 · Approve 441,007 A
August 1–August 20, 2024Favorability · JD VanceUnfavorable 48 · Favorable 311,015 A
July 1–July 21, 2024Job approval · Supreme CourtDisapprove 52 · Approve 431,010 A
July 1–July 21, 2024Job approval · CongressDisapprove 78 · Approve 161,010 A
May 1–May 23, 2024Job approval · CongressDisapprove 81 · Approve 131,024 A
February 1–February 20, 2024Job approval · CongressDisapprove 83 · Approve 121,016 A
October 2–October 23, 2023Job approval · CongressDisapprove 84 · Approve 131,009 A
September 1–September 23, 2023Job approval · CongressDisapprove 82 · Approve 171,016 A
September 1–September 23, 2023Job approval · Supreme CourtDisapprove 58 · Approve 411,016 A
July 3–July 27, 2023Job approval · Supreme CourtDisapprove 56 · Approve 401,015 A
June 1–June 22, 2023Job approval · CongressDisapprove 76 · Approve 201,013 A
May 1–May 24, 2023Job approval · CongressDisapprove 77 · Approve 201,011 A
January 2–January 22, 2023Job approval · CongressDisapprove 75 · Approve 211,011 A
November 9–December 2, 2022Job approval · CongressDisapprove 73 · Approve 221,020 A
October 3–October 20, 2022Job approval · CongressDisapprove 75 · Approve 211,009 A
September 1–September 16, 2022Job approval · Supreme CourtDisapprove 58 · Approve 40812 A
September 1–September 16, 2022Job approval · CongressDisapprove 75 · Approve 23812 A
August 1–August 23, 2022Job approval · CongressDisapprove 76 · Approve 221,006 A
July 5–July 26, 2022Job approval · CongressDisapprove 79 · Approve 171,013 A
July 5–July 26, 2022Job approval · Supreme CourtDisapprove 55 · Approve 431,013 A
June 1–June 20, 2022Job approval · CongressDisapprove 82 · Approve 161,015 A
May 2–May 22, 2022Job approval · CongressDisapprove 77 · Approve 181,007 A
April 1–April 19, 2022Job approval · CongressDisapprove 76 · Approve 201,018 A
March 1–March 18, 2022Job approval · CongressDisapprove 76 · Approve 211,017 A
February 1–February 17, 2022Job approval · CongressDisapprove 75 · Approve 201,008 A
January 3–January 16, 2022Job approval · CongressDisapprove 80 · Approve 18811 A
December 1–December 16, 2021Job approval · CongressDisapprove 73 · Approve 23811 A
November 1–November 16, 2021Job approval · CongressDisapprove 77 · Approve 20815 A
October 1–October 19, 2021Job approval · CongressDisapprove 75 · Approve 21832 A
September 1–September 17, 2021Job approval · CongressDisapprove 69 · Approve 271,005 A
September 1–September 17, 2021Job approval · Supreme CourtDisapprove 53 · Approve 401,005 A
August 2–August 17, 2021Job approval · CongressDisapprove 69 · Approve 281,006 A
July 6–July 21, 2021Job approval · CongressDisapprove 67 · Approve 261,007 A
June 6–June 21, 2021Job approval · Supreme CourtApprove 49 · Disapprove 441,007 A
June 1–June 18, 2021Job approval · CongressDisapprove 71 · Approve 261,012 A
May 3–May 18, 2021Job approval · CongressDisapprove 63 · Approve 311,016 A
April 1–April 21, 2021Job approval · CongressDisapprove 62 · Approve 33961 A
April 1–April 21, 2021Job approval · CongressDisapprove 62 · Approve 33961 A
March 1–March 15, 2021Job approval · CongressDisapprove 61 · Approve 361,010 A
February 3–February 18, 2021Job approval · CongressDisapprove 62 · Approve 351,021 A
January 4–January 15, 2021Job approval · CongressDisapprove 71 · Approve 251,023 A
December 1–December 17, 2020Job approval · CongressDisapprove 82 · Approve 151,018 A
November 5–November 19, 2020Job approval · CongressDisapprove 73 · Approve 231,018 A
September 30–October 15, 2020Job approval · CongressDisapprove 77 · Approve 191,035 A
August 31–September 13, 2020Job approval · CongressDisapprove 80 · Approve 171,019 A
July 30–August 12, 2020Job approval · CongressDisapprove 75 · Approve 211,031 A
July 1–July 23, 2020Job approval · CongressDisapprove 77 · Approve 181,007 A
May 28–June 4, 2020Job approval · CongressDisapprove 71 · Approve 251,034 A
May 1–May 13, 2020Job approval · CongressDisapprove 65 · Approve 311,028 A
April 1–April 14, 2020Job approval · CongressDisapprove 66 · Approve 301,017 A
March 2–March 13, 2020Job approval · CongressDisapprove 74 · Approve 221,019 A
February 3–February 16, 2020Job approval · CongressDisapprove 74 · Approve 231,028 A
January 2–January 15, 2020Job approval · CongressDisapprove 72 · Approve 231,014 A
December 2–December 15, 2019Job approval · CongressDisapprove 68 · Approve 271,025 A
November 1–November 14, 2019Job approval · CongressDisapprove 72 · Approve 241,015 A
October 1–October 13, 2019Job approval · CongressDisapprove 70 · Approve 251,526 A
September 3–September 15, 2019Job approval · CongressDisapprove 78 · Approve 181,525 A
August 1–August 14, 2019Job approval · CongressDisapprove 79 · Approve 171,522 A
July 1–July 12, 2019Job approval · CongressDisapprove 76 · Approve 171,525 A
June 3–June 16, 2019Job approval · CongressDisapprove 78 · Approve 191,018 A
May 1–May 12, 2019Job approval · CongressDisapprove 75 · Approve 201,009 A
April 1–April 9, 2019Job approval · CongressDisapprove 77 · Approve 201,012 A
March 1–March 10, 2019Job approval · CongressDisapprove 70 · Approve 261,039 A
February 1–February 10, 2019Job approval · CongressDisapprove 76 · Approve 211,016 A
January 2–January 10, 2019Job approval · CongressDisapprove 75 · Approve 201,017 A
December 3–December 12, 2018Job approval · CongressDisapprove 75 · Approve 181,025 A

§8What we looked for and didn't find

  • No standing news partner was found for its current US polling; Gallup publishes most of its US results itself.
  • Other standing research clients beyond the Knight Foundation study were not reviewed.
  • No outside fieldwork or panel vendor was identified; its panel methodology pages were not read.
  • The recorded settlement concerns federal contracting, not election polling, and the recorded correction concerns a media-trust study, not an election poll; the correction was a reissue, not a withdrawal.
  • Beyond the findings recorded, searches found no AAPOR statement, regulator action, or aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls.