How to Download Slido Poll Results
Slido poll results appear as percentages by default, and a host can switch them to raw vote counts. They show live once the host clicks the arrow next to a question. To download Slido poll results, open Slido Analytics, export key figures or word clouds as images, copy them to the clipboard, or generate a custom report to share with a team or participants.
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Read the tally before you export
Before you download Slido poll results, it helps to know what the numbers on screen actually are. Slido's community team says multiple choice poll results are displayed in percentages by default. That default trips people up: a close contest reads very differently as a percentage than as a raw count, and screenshots of the two are not interchangeable. If you want the figures themselves, the same community answer says you can change the display to show the number of votes instead.
During a session, results do not appear until you let them. Slido's community help says no results are displayed by default, and that clicking the arrow icon next to an individual poll displays its results live for participants to see. In a survey, the tally comes out one poll at a time with a simple click, which keeps the room from reading ahead.
Two settings therefore decide your export: whether the display shows percentages or counts, and which polls you have actually revealed. Check both before you leave the event page, and the download will match what you meant to save rather than a half-set view you did not notice.
Download from Slido Analytics
The download lives in Slido Analytics. Slido's features page for analytics describes it plainly: you can easily share poll results as images, and download word clouds or key results as images or copy them to the clipboard for quick sharing. There is no separate export wizard to hunt for. The analytics view is the route, and everything the platform documents for saving numbers runs through it.
For a tidier handover, the same page describes a custom report. You choose which insights it should carry, then generate it and share it with your team or with participants. That matters when a meeting produced a dozen polls and your audience only cares about three of them; the report is where you leave the rest out without deleting anything.
One practical habit is worth borrowing: export at the same moment for every event. When the export always comes from Analytics after voting closes, your records line up event to event, and nobody has to guess whether a saved image was taken mid-count or at the end. Consistency here is cheaper than reconciliation later.
The table sums up the routes. In practice most hosts grab an image for chat and build the report for the record.
While the poll is open
Results stay on screen after voting stops. Slido's community help says attendees still see the poll on the Present screen once voting is closed, but they cannot send votes or change their responses. The results remain displayed until the host deactivates the poll, so an event can end and the tally can stay up while people file out of the room.
Timing matters for the export too. A tally taken while a poll is open will not include responses that land afterwards, and nothing notifies you when a saved image has gone stale. If the numbers matter, close voting first, confirm the count has settled, then export. That order costs you nothing and saves a re-download later.
So the sequence a careful host runs is simple: reveal what should be public, close the voting, let the count settle, then head to Analytics. Each step protects the next one, and skipping the second is what produces exports that quietly disagree with what participants saw.
What an export cannot fix
A download is a record, not a repair. If a tally looks wrong, exporting it will not correct anything. What you can check is the mechanics: whether the display was set to percentages when you expected counts, whether some polls were never revealed, and whether the export predates a late surge of responses. None of that is an export problem; each is a display or timing question you answer inside the event itself.
On the rules side, Slido's published acceptable use terms require participants to follow the organiser's instructions, and its terms of service forbid use that can harm Slido or interfere with the functionality or operation of the service or its underlying systems. For a breach of its authorised-use obligations, the terms let Slido edit or remove a user's data, terminate that user's access with immediate effect, or cancel accounts.
The acceptable use page adds a second layer: Slido or the organiser can keep content off the screen, remove it or delete it, and Slido might even block a user's access to the service. In other words, the organiser and the platform both hold levers over anything that distorts a poll, and a distorted tally does not become acceptable because somebody saved a picture of it.
Where the documentation stops
The published help covers three export routes and no more. It does not document an automatic data file for the basic flow, and it does not promise a format beyond images, clipboard copies and the custom report. When a capability is not documented, the honest answer is that the options published for Analytics are the ones you have.
That gap is also why the live routes exist. Present mode and the arrow icon cover the moments Analytics does not, and Webex's help center treats the exported files as something you share afterwards rather than something participants watch build. If an audience needs numbers in real time, the answer is screen sharing, not a download.
And where the boundary sits matters for trust in the numbers. The platform documents its display defaults, its reveal controls and its export routes; it does not document a guarantee about any single tally. An organiser who wants a defensible result pairs the export with the event's own record: who attended, when voting closed, and what the room actually saw on screen.
| Route | What you get | Best moment |
|---|---|---|
| Image export | Image files of word clouds and key figures | After voting closes |
| Clipboard copy | Results pasted straight into chat or a document | Quick updates during a meeting |
| Custom report | A report carrying only the insights you select | Formal readouts for teams or leadership |
| Present mode | Live display on screen, one poll at a time | While people are watching |
How to do it
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Open the event
Sign in to Slido and open the event whose polls you want to save. The results sit with the event itself, not in a separate archive, so picking the right event is the first real decision.
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Head to Analytics
Slido Analytics gathers the event's figures in one view. This is where Slido's features page says you can easily share poll results as images and download word clouds or key results for quick sharing.
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Choose the export format
Pick between downloading results as images or copying them to the clipboard. For a packaged handover, generate a custom report and select which insights it carries, leaving out the polls your audience does not need.
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Share with your team or participants
Slido lets you share the custom report with a team or with participants directly. Webex's help center adds that exported infographics and results can be shared with participants or leadership after the session wraps.
Common questions
How to download Slido poll results?
Open Slido Analytics for your event and export what you need there. Slido's features page says key results and word clouds download as images, everything can be copied to the clipboard for quick sharing, and a custom report packages the insights you choose for a team or participants. The export runs from the host's account, so participants never pull the file themselves.
How to export Slido poll results?
Through the Analytics area, in three published formats. You can download word clouds and key figures as image files, copy results straight to the clipboard, or generate a custom report where you decide which insights it carries. Slido's own features page names exactly those routes, and nothing else is documented for the standard flow.
How to share Slido poll results?
Live, open Present mode from the green button in the top right corner and share your screen, then click the arrow icon next to a poll so participants see its results. Afterwards, use Analytics: exported images, clipboard copies and custom reports all leave Slido ready to send to whoever missed the session.
Why do results show percentages instead of vote counts?
Because Slido displays multiple choice results as percentages by default. Slido's community team notes you can change the display to show the number of votes instead, so a close tally can be read in raw figures rather than shares of the total. Switch it before you export, since the display you leave on is what your files will carry.
Can results be shown one poll at a time?
Yes. Slido's community help says that in Present and Participant modes, survey results can only be displayed one poll at a time, and that no results show by default. Click the arrow icon next to each question when you want that poll's tally to appear for the room.
What happens to results after voting is closed?
Results stay visible after voting is closed. Slido's community help says attendees still see the poll on the Present screen once voting is closed, but they cannot send votes or change their responses, and the results remain displayed until the host deactivates the poll. So an export taken after the close matches what people saw last.
Where these facts come from
- community.slido.com. community.slido.com/poll-display-settings-221/display-multiple-choice-results-in-number-of-votes-509.
- community.slido.com. community.slido.com/poll-display-settings-221/display-multiple-choice-results-in-number-of-votes-509.
- slido.com. slido.com/features-analytics.
- slido.com. slido.com/features-analytics.
- slido.com. slido.com/features-analytics.
No export changes the underlying tally, and no download makes a result different from what participants actually sent. The controls belong to the host, not to participants, so a participant cannot pull an export. The numbers you download are a snapshot: responses arriving after the download never appear in it. And an export never tells you whether a tally was distorted; that judgment sits with the organiser and the platform's own checks.
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