voting

method for a group such as a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion
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voting

Summary

voting ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (657 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • voting followed political campaign[2].
  • voting took place at polling place[3].
  • voting is a type of event[4].
  • voting is a type of group decision-making[5].
  • voting is a type of legal act[6].
  • voting is a type of selection[7].
  • voting is used for decision making[8].
  • voting's Commons category is recorded as Voting[9].
  • voting is the opposite of abstention[10].
  • voting's Unicode character is recorded as 🗳[11].
  • voting's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Voting[12].
  • voting's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13].
  • voting's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14].
  • voting's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • voting's topic has template is recorded as Template:Voting[16].
  • voting's has immediate cause is recorded as vote[17].
  • voting's used by is recorded as electoral unit[18].
  • voting's used by is recorded as democracy[19].
  • voting's has characteristic is recorded as voting method[20].
  • voting's different from is recorded as musical tuning[21].
  • voting's properties for this type is recorded as P2964[22].
  • voting's uses is recorded as ballot[23].
  • voting's uses is recorded as secret ballot[24].
  • voting's hashtag is recorded as vote[25].
  • voting's hashtag is recorded as IVoted[26].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include event[4], group decision-making[5], legal act[6], and selection[7]. voting is the opposite of abstention[10].

Use and Application

voting is used for decision making[8]. Recorded used by include electoral unit[18] and democracy[19].

Why It Matters

voting ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (657 views/month).[1] voting has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] voting is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  22. [23] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of event, group decision-making, legal act +1
    Has characteristic voting method
    Uses
    Described by source Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||3 */ [[Property:P2347]], mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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