# Create Vote

Now that you have a Poll with some options, let's go ahead and add vote to it.

## Add vote to an option in a poll

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `https://api.pollsapi.com/v1/create/vote`

This endpoint helps you add a vote to an option

#### Headers

| Name         | Type   | Description              |
| ------------ | ------ | ------------------------ |
| Content-Type | string | application/json         |
| api-key      | string | API Key for your account |

#### Request Body

| Name       | Type   | Description                                            |
| ---------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| poll\_id   | string | ID of the Poll on which the vote will be added         |
| option\_id | string | ID of the Option the vote will be on                   |
| identifier | string | Custom field that can be used to store some identifier |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 Poll Created" %}

```javascript
{
  "status": "success",
  "statusCode": 200,
  "data": {
    "identifier": "user_12",
    "poll_id": "5f9f7b186477891e5bc646a1",
    "option_id": "5f9f7b186477891e5bc646a2",
    "created_at": "2020-11-02T06:24:24.760Z",
    "updated_at": "2020-11-02T06:24:24.760Z",
    "id": "5f9fa6186477891e5bc646a5",
    "entity": "Vote"
  }
}



```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

### Example cURL Request

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.pollsapi.com/v1/create/vote \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -H "api-key: $API_KEY" \
  -d '
  {
      "poll_id": "5f9f7b186477891e5bc646a1",
      "option_id": "5f9f7b186477891e5bc646a2",
      "identifier": "user_12"
  }
  '
```

### Request Body

```javascript
{
    "poll_id": "5f9f7b186477891e5bc646a1",
    "option_id": "5f9f7b186477891e5bc646a2",
    "identifier": "user_12"
}
```