the vote

noun

: the legal right to vote
In 1920, American women won the vote.

Examples of the vote in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Peltz received less than one-third of the vote, or roughly 31%, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. Oliver Darcy, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024 In the April 2 election, Cabrera was elected to the Milwaukee County Circuit Court with 51% of the vote. Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2024 Donald Rainwater, the Libertarian candidate who earned a remarkable 11.4% of the vote in the 2020 gubernatorial election, is also back again on the ballot. Evan Frank, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2024 The results of the vote handed Peltz a resounding defeat. Paolo Confino, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024 Fernandez earned that distinction by a wide margin with 31% of the vote, finishing ahead of the Milwaukee Bucks’ Terry Stotts (10%), Young (10%), Lee (7%) and the Boston Celtics’ Sam Cassell (7%). Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 3 Apr. 2024 Kirkland cake got more than half of the vote with 58.8%. Kimberly Cataudella Tutuska, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024 However, Sall was unapologetic about delaying the vote. Nimi Princewill, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024 But the vote there succeeded on a jarringly slim margin for Johnson and the House GOP leadership and ignited a rebellion among far-right extremists in the lower chamber, testing the speaker’s tenuous grip on his conference. Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024

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“The vote.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20vote. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.

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