Election Day

English

Proper noun

Election Day

1. (politics) The day on which a general election is designated to be held.
2. (US politics, specifically) The day on which general elections are held in the United States: the Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
   • 2020 November 3, Stephanie Saul, Danny Hakim, “As Counting Begins, a Flood of Mail Ballots Complicates Vote Tallies”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Voters returned nearly 64 million mail-in ballots before Election Day, a pandemic-driven record that is certain to make for a more complicated vote count this year but could also reshape American elections for years to come.

Synonyms

• polling day

Translations

Election Day — see polling day

References

• “Election Day”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.