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polling station

noun

polling station is a noun meaning “a place where voters go to cast their ballot in an election or referendum; a voting station” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-L-L-I-N-G-S-T-A-T-I-O-N. The plural of polling station is polling stations.

What does polling station mean?

noun

  1. 1

    AustraliaCanadaUKa place where voters go to cast their ballot in an election or referendum; a voting station

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce polling station?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-polling_station.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of polling station

  • polling stations plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Polling station in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense place where voters go to cast their ballot:

LanguageWords
Frenchbureau de vote
GermanWahllokal
Portugueseseção eleitoral
Spanishcolegio electoral, mesa electoral, centro votacional, lugar votatorio, recinto votativo, estación de votación

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.