NOUN
- the day appointed for an election; in the United States it is the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November
How To Use polling day In A Sentence
- Cameron made no secret of his plans before the election but the Liberal Democrat approach to macroeconomic policy was broadly similar to Labour's until Clegg flip-flopped the weekend after polling day. Cuts offer Ed Miliband an open goal
- Voters will be able to vote before normal polling day.
- Given the increasing sophistication that leaders like Uganda's Yoweri Museveni, Rwanda's Paul Kagame, and Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi have shown in precooking elections before polling day, the result is a policy that effectively prevents presidents from being ousted either militarily or through the ballot box, no matter how unpopular they become. Is There Such Thing As A Good Coup?
- His approval rating has climbed from 34 per cent on polling day to 42 per cent this week. Times, Sunday Times
- The Representation of the People Act 1969 extended the franchise to persons aged 18 or more on polling day.
- With a week to go until polling day, the Conservatives are still behind in the polls.
- She was ill during hustings and had to send a proxy to make speeches on her behalf in the run up to polling day.
- He stomped the country in the weeks before polling day giving energetic speeches, described by some as 3-hour harangues.
- She declines to accompany him on polling day, in spite of his plea that this would probably be the last political campaign of his life. Times, Sunday Times
- From now until polling day voters will be told that Britain is halfway towards a mended economy. Times, Sunday Times
