Poll

Forms is a separate tool you build in one place, share as a link, chase responses on, and export results from. Poll lives on the intranet page your team already visits, so the vote happens in context and the results sit where the conversation already is. Forms is better for long multi-question surveys. Poll is better for single-question checkpoints embedded in the flow of work.

Anonymous for anything where attribution would change behaviour - culture questions, leadership feedback, anything sensitive. Attributed for decisions where you need an audit trail or where participation itself is meaningful (e.g. "did every department rep vote on the new policy?"). The setting is per poll, so each question gets the right treatment.

Yes - this is what the "hide until close" option is for. Users cast their vote without seeing how others have voted, which prevents bandwagon effects on sensitive topics. Results reveal automatically when the poll closes, or you can reveal them manually.

Configurable. Default is one vote per user, locked once cast. You can allow vote changes while the poll is open if the question warrants it - useful for consultations where people might genuinely want to reconsider after reading comments or discussing with colleagues.

Yes, through standard SharePoint audience targeting on the page section the web part sits in. The London office sees the London lunch poll, Engineering sees the Engineering tooling poll. You don't need separate intranet sites to run separate polls.

Yes. When a SharePoint page is embedded as a tab in Teams, Poll renders correctly and voting works the same way. Mobile Teams too, so field-based staff can vote from their phone.