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Election day   /ɪlˈɛkʃən deɪ/   Listen
Election day

noun
1.
The day appointed for an election; in the United States it is the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November.  Synonym: polling day.





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"Election day" Quotes from Famous Books



... the city. To-day is election day and mamma does not know that I have withdrawn, therefore she will wait for the evening papers in the hope that she will find my ...
— So Runs the World • Henryk Sienkiewicz,
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... rapidity as was the result of the recent poll on the Commonwealth Bill. In both cases but one fact is to be gleaned from each voting paper. The results from all parts of the colony would be posted in Collins-street on election day. These results would show exactly how the cat was going to jump. The final results as regards parties would be obvious to all observers, although the result as regards individual candidates would be far from clear. But this, although of vast importance to the candidates ...
— Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government • T. R. Ashworth and H. P. C. Ashworth
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... The election day came and went. Bartley remained out till the news of Tilden's success could no longer be doubted, and then came home jubilant. Marcia seemed not to understand. "I didn't know you cared so much for Tilden," she said, ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
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... On one election day he is said to have called his men together, and to have told them: "You will have two hours this afternoon to cast your votes in. The mill will close at 4 o'clock, and I expect every man to vote as I do. Now I am going to vote just as I please, ...
— Cambridge Sketches • Frank Preston Stearns
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... buried with "trimmings," and the gang rode back, laughing and shouting, through the town and up into the safety of the mountains. Election day was fast approaching and therefore the rival candidates for sheriff hastily organized posses and ...
— Riders of the Silences • Max Brand
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... all this seems to be St. Joseph and Buchanan County. I wish you to give special attention to this region, particularly on Election day. Prevent violence, from whatever quarter, and see that the ...
— Forty-Six Years in the Army • John M. Schofield
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