diff --git a/src/components/room/widgets/RoomWidgetsView.tsx b/src/components/room/widgets/RoomWidgetsView.tsx
index 7768aa5..66745c2 100644
--- a/src/components/room/widgets/RoomWidgetsView.tsx
+++ b/src/components/room/widgets/RoomWidgetsView.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { GetRoomEngine, RoomEngineObjectEvent, RoomEngineRoomAdEvent, RoomEngine
 import { FC } from 'react';
 import { DispatchUiEvent, LocalizeText, NotificationAlertType, RoomWidgetUpdateRoomObjectEvent } from '../../../api';
 import { WidgetErrorBoundary } from '../../../common';
-import { useNitroEvent, useNotification, useRoom } from '../../../hooks';
+import { useNitroEvent, useNotification, usePollSubscriptions, useRoom } from '../../../hooks';
 import { AvatarInfoWidgetView } from './avatar-info/AvatarInfoWidgetView';
 import { ChatInputView } from './chat-input/ChatInputView';
 import { ChatWidgetView } from './chat/ChatWidgetView';
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ export const RoomWidgetsView: FC<{}> = props =>
     const { roomSession = null } = useRoom();
     const { simpleAlert = null } = useNotification();
 
+    // Bridge RoomSessionPollEvent (OFFER/ERROR/CONTENT) onto the UI bus
+    // for the lifetime of the room session. Single mount point so the
+    // listeners are not re-registered per widget render.
+    usePollSubscriptions();
+
     useNitroEvent<RoomZoomEvent>(RoomZoomEvent.ROOM_ZOOM, event => GetRoomEngine().setRoomInstanceRenderingCanvasScale(event.roomId, 1, (((event.level)<1) ? 0.5 : (1 << (Math.floor(event.level) - 1))), null, null, event.isFlipForced));
 
     useNitroEvent<RoomEngineObjectEvent>(
diff --git a/src/hooks/rooms/widgets/usePollWidget.ts b/src/hooks/rooms/widgets/usePollWidget.ts
index 746ae99..ce1e505 100644
--- a/src/hooks/rooms/widgets/usePollWidget.ts
+++ b/src/hooks/rooms/widgets/usePollWidget.ts
@@ -1,17 +1,12 @@
 import { usePollActions } from './usePollActions';
-import { usePollSubscriptions } from './usePollSubscriptions';
 
 /**
- * @deprecated Prefer `usePollSubscriptions` (mount once, top-level) and
- * `usePollActions` (anywhere a component dispatches a vote/accept/reject).
- * This shim preserves the old `{ startPoll, rejectPoll, answerPoll }`
- * shape for existing consumers, but each call also re-mounts the three
- * subscription listeners — which is wrong if the hook is called from
- * multiple places.
+ * @deprecated Prefer `usePollActions` for components that dispatch
+ * votes/accepts/rejects. The corresponding subscriptions are now mounted
+ * once by `RoomWidgetsView` via `usePollSubscriptions`, so this shim no
+ * longer needs to register them transitively.
+ *
+ * Kept only to preserve the `{ startPoll, rejectPoll, answerPoll }`
+ * shape for any out-of-tree consumer; remove once nothing imports it.
  */
-export const usePollWidget = () =>
-{
-    usePollSubscriptions();
-
-    return usePollActions();
-};
+export const usePollWidget = () => usePollActions();