# Sort poll options by results

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-poll-options-by-results/116219>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** polls\
**Created:** [29 april 2019 om 08:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-poll-options-by-results/116219 "2019-04-29T08:08:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![bartv](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bartv/32/130052_2.png) [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)\
**Post date:** [29 april 2019 om 08:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-poll-options-by-results/116219/1 "2019-04-29T08:08:26Z")

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We noticed that the behavior of polls changed recently: after voting, the poll options are sorted by the number of votes. For our use case (we have a regular ‘feature/don’t feature’ poll in the moderator team) this leads to ‘misfires’ as people are used to the options having a fixed location. Is there a way to disable this globally and re-enable on individual polls?

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**Author:** ![bartv](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bartv/32/130052_2.png) [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)\
**Post date:** [29 april 2019 om 13:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-poll-options-by-results/116219/2 "2019-04-29T13:03:40Z")

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I’m starting to doubt if this was in fact different in the past… Still, it would be very useful for certain polls if we could keep the results in the same order as the original poll to avoid confusion.

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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [29 april 2019 om 15:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-poll-options-by-results/116219/3 "2019-04-29T15:22:10Z")

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Poll results were always sorted by # of votes.

Adding an option to control that behavior is interesting but that’s the first time I’ve heard about this being an issue.

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**Author:** ![nathank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathank/32/290039_2.png) [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)\
**Post date:** [2 augustus 2023 om 07:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-poll-options-by-results/116219/4 "2023-08-02T07:27:39Z")

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Same with ours. We’d like the order preserved as asked.

Is there a hack which would enable this to be the case?