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undervote

undervote noun: a vote that has been cast but that shows no legally valid preference for a candidate in an election.

Noun

undervote (plural undervotes)

  1. A vote that has been cast but that shows no legally valid preference for a candidate in an election.
  2. The number of such votes in an election.

Verb

undervote (third-person singular simple present undervotes, present participle undervoting, simple past and past participle undervoted)

  1. To spoil a ballot by marking it for fewer choices than mandated by the rules.

Forms of undervote

Noun
pluralundervotes
Verb
third-person singular presentundervotes
present participleundervoting
past participleundervoted
pastundervoted

Origin of undervote

From under- + vote.

Words formed from undervote

Questions about undervote

What does undervote mean?
Undervote means a vote that has been cast but that shows no legally valid preference for a candidate in an election.
What part of speech is undervote?
Undervote can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of undervote?
The plural of undervote is undervotes.

Words near undervote in the dictionary

  1. undervoltage
  2. undervoltages
  3. undervolted
  4. undervolting
  5. undervolts
  6. undervote
  7. undervoted
  8. undervoter
  9. undervoters
  10. undervotes
  11. undervoting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undervote (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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