How to Use Election Day in a Sentence

Election Day

noun
  • Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday.
    Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Biden isn’t the first incumbent to face grim polling a year out from Election Day.
    Jazmine Ulloa, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The wild card is Election Day, which, depending on the year, can stir up a wide range of emotions.
    Brian Manzullo, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2023
  • If the court rules against Trump in June, the timeline is very tight to get the trial started before Election Day.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • In both cases, the recounts ended with no changes to the Election Day results.
    Doug Thompson, arkansasonline.com, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Voting precincts will be open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. local time on Election Day, May 16.
    Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 10 Apr. 2023
  • On Election Day, one person’s vote counts just as much as anyone else’s.
    George Hawley, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Here's where the Senate map stands nine months from Election Day and a look at the earliest fundraising numbers for the year.
    Grace Kazarian, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The deadline to register to vote was 14 days before Election Day.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But there is time for several more news cycles to come and go before Election Day.
    Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Whether Arizona’s ban stands after Election Day remains to be seen.
    Albinson Linares, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • This is the first of seven—count ’em, seven—trials Donald Trump is scheduled to face between now and Election Day.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Bilingual workers will get an extra $5 for each day at a vote center, and $10 extra on Election Day.
    The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The new mayor elected will take office 24 days after Election Day.
    Hannah Prince, ABC News, 27 July 2023
  • The resolution, if passed by the House, would appear on the ballot and be decided by voters on Election Day.
    The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Voters can mail their ballots back or drop them off at an official dropbox as late as Election Day.
    Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But, with nearly nine and a half months until November 5th, Democrats have grounds for hoping that will change before Election Day.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • On Election Day in 2020, Americans proved that Trump could be defeated.
    Julian Zelizer, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The other three voted during early voting and on Election Day.
    Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2024
  • There was a bake sale going on: Students, parents, teachers, et al., take the opportunity of Election Day to hold a bake sale.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The absentee ballots will be counted on Election Day at the city's central count location.
    Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
  • With two weeks until Election Day 2023, just check out these advertisements.
    Mark Murray, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Tarrant County has countywide voting, which means voters can go to any polling place on Election Day.
    Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Mar. 2024
  • On Election Day, the political cognoscenti were stunned.
    Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The one date that can’t be erased from Trump’s calendar is Election Day, at least not without the help of Republican primary voters.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 23 July 2023
  • Twelve months out from Election Day, the Presidential campaign has inescapably begun with the slow, ominous, upward crank of a roller coaster.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The name isn’t mentioned much today except when district residents arrive at their polling places on Election Day.
    Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2023
  • It can also be given to any polling location through early voting or Election Day.
    The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Haley, who dropped out after Georgia's early voting had already started but after Election Day there, still got over 13% of the vote on March 12.
    Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Just two weeks before Election Day, both candidates met for their first and only debate in the general election.
    Chuck Todd, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2023

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