Definition: 1. The system of voting in writing and usually in secret; an occasion on which a vote is held. 2. A choice that is made by voting. 3. A document listing the alternatives that is used in voting.
Use 'ballot' in a sentence:
1. She won 58.8% of the ballot.
2. The union already has a mandate from its conference to ballot for a strike.
3. Shortlists for job interviews, election ballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawn up alphabetically.
4. The result showed he had polled enough votes to force a second ballot.
5. There should be a seven-day cooling-off period between a strike ballot and industrial action.
6. Some teams hold ballot-punching parties.
7. The ballot boxes have been switched.
8. Members can blackball candidates in secret ballots.
9. I'm going to write him in on my ballot next year.
10. The state election in November will be the last such ballot before next year's presidential contest.
11. The Republican ballot features the most sizzling fights.
12. The people make their wishes known through the ballot box.
13. There will be two ballot boxes ─ one for yesses and one for noes.
14. The chairperson is chosen by secret ballot.
15. The results showed that 7.2% of the voters cast blank or spoiled ballots.
16. They succeeded in putting Perot's name on the ballot in Florida.
17. The London Marathon ballot results are in.
18. The latest ballot initiative is hardly unique.
19. Her immediate aim is to make it to the run-off ballot.
20. Mr Bloomberg is not even on the ballot.
21. The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.
22. The first ballot is on Tuesday Nov. 20.
23. The result of the ballot will not be known for two weeks.
24. Were I a Kuwaiti woman wielding a ballot, I would have been a clearer and more present danger.
25. He has tallied the result of the ballot.
26. Officials must often count up the votes one by one, going through every ballot and recording the vote.
27. They had broadcast calls for voters to spoil their ballot papers.
28. Election boards will count the ballots by hand.
29. They had not found any evidence of a systematic attempt to rig the ballot.
30. The leader will be chosen by secret ballot.
31. Martinez expressed confidence of victory at the ballot box.
32. The state election due in November will be the last such ballot before next year's presidential contest.
33. His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.
34. Unions would elect their leadership by secret postal ballot.
35. Fifty of its members will be elected by direct ballot.
36. The poll was widely discredited after allegations of ballot rigging.
37. Under the alternative vote system, voters would be invited to rank candidates on the ballot in order of preference.
38. The workers balloted for a strike.
39. There will be two ballot boxes—one for yesses and one for noes.
40. What percentage of eligible voters cast their ballots?
41. The union balloted its members on the proposed changes.
42. The union cannot call a strike unless it holds a ballot of members.
43. They had already voted for him at the first ballot.
44. He has already voted by absentee ballot.
45. He publicly attacked the people who've been calling for secret ballot nominations.
