Election Day

noun

: a day legally established for the election of public officials

especially : the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in an even year designated for national elections in the U.S. and observed as a legal holiday in many states

Examples of Election Day in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Trump is seeking to delay the latter three trials to beyond Election Day on Nov. 5. —

David Jackson, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024 Canyon County Election Day is May 21, and Canyon County residents can also vote early, weekdays from May 6-17 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Caldwell Elks Lodge or the Hispanic Cultural Center. —

Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 10 May 2024 Among them was paralegal Georgia Longstreet, who guided jurors through text messages between Stormy Daniels' former agent and an editor at American Media Inc. regarding the hush payment negotiations between Daniels' and Trump's representatives in the weeks before Election Day. —

Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 10 May 2024 So, voting on Election Day was in a steady decline before, but then saw a massive drop in 2020. —

Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2024 Neither had much interest in politics beyond insuring that voting went smoothly on Election Day. —

Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024 Democrats would only need to win a small number of seats to win control back in this fall's general elections and the border is likely to be an issue that plays an important role in House campaigns between now and Election Day. —

Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 7 May 2024 Live Indiana Election Day updates:GOP governor's race, Statehouse seats up for grabs IndyStar government and politics editor Kaitlin Lange will host a panel that includes IndyStar Statehouse reporters Brittany Carloni and Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar opinion editor James Briggs and guest panelists. —

Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 7 May 2024 That reduction is another way of saying that, from now to Election Day, there will be $35 billion of excess liquidity sloshing through the economy each month. —

Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 6 May 2024

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