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Plural of ballot

regular plural

The plural of ballot is ballots.

Forms of ballot

Singularballot /ˈbælət/
Pluralballots
Countablecountable

Ballots in a sentence

  • Imagine if the outcome in Michigan is close, and 75% of Biden supporters vote absentee, yet 10% or more of those ballots are rejected.2020 September 14, Richard H. Pildes, “The three words that can avert an election nightmare”, in CNN
  • Time to tell all the ballots cast by voters in the box.From the entry cast
  • The election monitors found that a large number of ballots had been tampered with.From the entry tamper
  • There shall also be a large box for the reception of the unvoted ballots.From the entry unvoted
  • Elections officials aim to send out the VIGs before voters get their ballots.2025 October 3 (last accessed), “Get Your County Voter Information Guide and Sample Ballot Online”, in Nevada County, California, archived…. From the entry vig

Meaning of ballot

  1. noun A small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a vote.
  2. noun The process of voting, especially in secret; a round of voting.
  3. noun The total of all the votes cast in an election.

Full definition of ballot

Questions about the plural of ballot

What is the plural of ballot?
The plural of ballot is ballots.
Is ballot countable?
Ballot is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ballot (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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