election night

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election night (plural election nights)

  1. (politics) The evening after an election, during which the votes are being counted.
    • 2023 November 7, Alyce McFadden, “When Will We Have Election Results?”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-08:
      In Virginia, polls will close at 7 p.m. Eastern time. Voters will weigh in on all of the state’s 140 legislative contests Tuesday, and the winners of many will most likely be apparent before the end of election night.

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