# Ability to Hide Poll Results
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-hide-poll-results/39900
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [20.Февраль.2016 17:58:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-hide-poll-results/39900 "2016-02-20T17:58:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Carson1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Carson1)
#### Post date: [20.Февраль.2016 17:58:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-hide-poll-results/39900/1 "2016-02-20T17:58:32Z")
Our community would like to host a competition where users would vote for winners using a poll. However, you can just click “Show results” and you can see who’s winning, this might influence your decision. So is there a way to make results show at a certain time, or make them public manually at a given time? This would also be nice if we were to have a trivia quiz or something like it.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [20.Февраль.2016 18:05:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-hide-poll-results/39900/2 "2016-02-20T18:05:19Z")
This has come up before, so this is a duplicate, but the only way I know of (and this impacts staff too), is to use CSS
So post the topic with the poll, grab the topic id and put this as a custom stylesheet for both mobile and desktop (43 being the topic id)
```plaintext
section[data-topic-id="43"] .toggle-results { display: none }
```
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### Author:  [@Carson1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Carson1)
#### Post date: [20.Февраль.2016 18:07:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-hide-poll-results/39900/3 "2016-02-20T18:07:46Z")
Ok, sorry about that. Can you direct me to the original thread?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [20.Февраль.2016 18:11:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-hide-poll-results/39900/4 "2016-02-20T18:11:51Z")
Man, that took a while to find (seriously! I had to change my search criteria a dozen times before I found it).
> [@Keep poll results hidden?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keep-poll-results-hidden/29810):
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> Pretty sure this isn’t possible, but is there a way to keep poll results hidden? I want to do a secret ballot where only I know the results (until I want to announce them).
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### Author:  [@Carson1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Carson1)
#### Post date: [20.Февраль.2016 18:26:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-hide-poll-results/39900/5 "2016-02-20T18:26:11Z")
Ah thanks, I was surprised that this wasn’t suggested before:)
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [22.Февраль.2016 11:10:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-hide-poll-results/39900/6 "2016-02-22T11:10:32Z")