Election Day

noun

(in the U.S.) the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November on which national elections are held for electors of the president and vice president in those years evenly divisible by four. On even years constituents elect members of the House of Representatives for two-year terms and one third of the Senate for six-year terms.
(often lowercase) any day designated for the election of public officials.

First recorded in 1640–50

But on Election Day, many chose “yes,” bringing female support to 53 percent, up from 48.

The filled out pledge cards are then mailed back to voters shortly before Election Day as a way to remind them to vote.

After some $4 billion spent on the 2014 midterms, voter turnout is expected to be down again this Election Day.

Four years later, Bush would be aided by the airing of a video by Osama bin Laden, which dropped just before Election Day.

The polls say Republicans will likely eke out a small majority in the Senate this Election Day.

When an election-day comes round now, it takes me back to the time of 1832.

The good Republican set election-day for the happiest holiday of his life, for that would be his wedding-day.

There were sounds of stirring, but no one was trusting that the election-day brawls were completely ended yet.

Liberty is the steam, responsibility the brakes, and election-day, the safety-valve.

It was a repetition, with slight variations, of a village-fair anywhere else, or an election-day in America.

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