"polling day" refers to the day when people go to vote in an election. It's the designated day for citizens to cast their votes and choose their preferred candidates or express their opinions on certain issues.
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Even
on polling day there were people who thought you really wanted us to leave.
The investigation into the causes of the party's electoral collapse reveals that senior figures were hoping to win 23 to 30 seats right up
until polling day.
He explained that he changed his mind about the need for immediate spending cuts just
after polling day.
Remember that explanation I touched upon before, about the reducing number of don't knows as people made up their minds
as polling day approached?
As
polling day approaches, the main parties face an electorate that is deeply dissatisfied with politicians in general.
I would like to express to colleagues my sincere regret at going public with my frustrations about the turn of events
following polling day.
It has also added over 10,000 new members
since polling day, partly reversing the decline it suffered in the early years of coalition.
(2) The returning officer shall certify and supply a copy of the official polling list to each deputy returning officer for use at the advance polls and on
regular polling day.
Of course, making predictions based on uneven evidence weeks before
polling day carries obvious risks.
Some councils will count overnight, however, and we will bring you live updates
throughout polling day and the results which follow.
On a more practical level, the Conservatives need to Get Out The Vote
on polling day.
It's the most important message that the Conservatives need to communicate from now
until polling day.
It's also worth remembering that all these polls were conducted at least 4 days
before polling day.
Some had permanent posts but most, especially younger members of staff like myself, had short - term contracts that expired soon
after polling day.
Labour is worried that many of these will be the poorer, inner - city sort of voters which tend to back their party
come polling day.
That is the real threat to a Conservative government
as polling day comes closer.
ending with the close
of polling day for the second general election that takes place after the date of receipt by the Electoral Commission of the duly completed return
This year's local elections in England, which conclude
with Polling Day on Thursday 3 May, are an important electoral test for the Jeremy Corbyn led Labour Party.
Returning officers issue and despatch postal ballot packs at 5 p.m. on the eleventh working day before
polling day at the earliest.
With three days to go until
polling day in the Crewe and Nantwich by - election, the candidates are pulling out all the stops.
If this pattern is repeated, UKIP is likely to overtake Labour
by polling day.
Second is that investors have been discounting days and weeks of wrangling after
polling day over who would form the government - and so they are semi-euphoric that we already know who's in charge.
At debates and dinner parties, commentators, journalists and academics usually say something like this: «Yes it is close now but as
polling day nears people will shift toward Remain».
«One week out
from polling day in Feltham and Heston the campaign is shifting up a gear.
By denying Gordon Brown his preferred option of an early election, the Conservatives have scored a stunning political coup and opened up the genuine prospect of victory
when polling day eventually comes.
21 (1) Up to and including the day immediately
preceding polling day, the returning officer shall consider all applications concerning the list of electors or the polling list with regard to the application for the addition or deletion of a name or the correction of an error and the returning officer's decision is final.
«Labour revives idea of
polling day referenda to wrongfoot Cameron Main If Cameron does not change course his government will face opposition on TWO fronts»
By the
time polling day in Glasgow North East comes, a year will have passed since the SNP's John Mason won a totemic victory against Labour in Glasgow East.
On
polling day last year Land tweeted a call for voters to back the Greens rather than Labour.
The backbencher warned against those close to Mr Corbyn who might be assuming the election result was a solid resurgence of the core vote, saying: «Even on
polling day there was still a major problem with white working - class voters.
But for Rick Edwards, the dwindling
polling day turnout among 18 - 24 year olds is an issue of some concern.
They have had they're own gaffes in the past after all and there is still a week to go until
polling day so any one of them could find themselves in a similar position.
On the morning of
polling day Cameron's team sat round Steve Hilton's kitchen table in Oxfordshire and made their predictions; most were for the Conservatives being the largest party but without a majority.
One NEC source told HuffPost UK that Corbyn calling for «trigger ballots» to be enforced - with just seven weeks to
possible polling day on June 8 - would be «a massive waste of time and energy that should be used talking to actual voters instead».
Polling takes place across Europe over three days to take into account the
traditional polling days in different member states.
The Scottish press pack well remembers a bolshie First Minister in 2014 who hit a low point as
polling day loomed when he patronised a young Daily Telegraph journalist by offering him sweeties.
The Scottish party political conference season kicks off this weekend, and that together with the fact that it will be «six months to go» until
polling day next Wednesday means there is likely to be another intense round of media speculation and commentary on the state of the referendum race in the next few days.
We've spent three days in each of a sample of six constituencies and are now
observing polling day through its full 20 - hour run from the open of polls to their close and the count process.
Perhaps, when
polling day dawned, the reality was somewhat less appealing than it had been when people's final voting decision could still be changed.
By the time of the third debate, the surge had all but run out of puff and the full week between that final bout and
polling day permitted further momentum to be lost.
But the Premier and his entourage believe the sternest test will come in a month's time in a Question Time special just a week away from
polling day which is certain to win the biggest audience.