polling station

English

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Noun

polling station (plural polling stations)

1. (British, Canada, Australia) a place where voters go to cast their ballot in an election or referendum; a voting station
   • 2017 October 22, Sam Jones, “Catalonia weighs up declaration of independence”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     Dastis defended the Spanish police’s actions as they tried to halt the referendum, even though other members of the government have apologised for the violent scenes when officers raided polling stations, charged the crowds with batons and fired rubber bullets.

Translations

place where voters go to cast their ballot

• Armenian: ընտրատեղամաս (hy) (əntrateġamas)
• Asturian: colexu eleutoral (ast)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 投票站 (zh) (tóupiàozhàn)

• Czech: volební místnost f
• Danish: valgsted n, afstemningssted n
• Esperanto: elektejo
• Faroese: valhøli, valstaður
• Finnish: äänestyspaikka (fi), vaalipaikka
• French: bureau de vote (fr) m
• Galician: colexio electoral m, mesa electoral f
• German: Wahllokal (de) n
• Icelandic: kjörstaður m
• Irish: stáisiún vótála m
• Italian: seggio elettorale m
• Macedonian: бира́лиште n (birálište)
• Maori: whare pōti
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: valglokale, stemmelokale

  Nynorsk: vallokale, røystelokale

• Polish: lokal wyborczy (pl) m
• Portuguese: seção eleitoral
• Russian: избира́тельный уча́сток m (izbirátelʹnyj učástok)
• Serbo-Croatian: biralište (sh) n, biračko mjesto n
• Spanish: colegio electoral m, mesa electoral f
• Swedish: vallokal (sv) c
• Ukrainian: виборча дільниця f (vyborča dilʹnycja)
• Volapük: vögodöp (vo)

See also

• voting booth, polling booth