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Meaning of "protest vote" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PROTEST VOTE

protest vote  [ˈprəʊtest vəʊt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROTEST VOTE

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Protest vote is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROTEST VOTE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Protest vote

A protest vote is a vote cast in an election to demonstrate the caster's dissatisfaction with the choice of candidates or refusal of the current political system. In this latter case, protest vote may take the form of a valid vote, but instead of voting for the mainstream candidates, it is a vote in favor of a minority or fringe candidate, either from the far-left, far-right or self-presenting as a candidate foreign to the political system. Along with abstention, which is simply the act of not voting, it is often considered to be a clear sign of the lack of popular legitimacy and roots of representative democracy, as depressed voter turnout endangers the credibility of the whole voting system. If protest vote takes the form of a blank vote, it may or may not be tallied into final results depending on the rules. Thus, it may either result in a spoilt vote or, if the electoral system accepts to take it into account, as a "None of the Above" vote.

Definition of protest vote in the English dictionary

The definition of protest vote in the dictionary is a vote cast for someone other than the candidate who might have expected it, in order to show the voter's discontent. Other definition of protest vote is body of protest votes collectively.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROTEST VOTE


boat
bəʊt
coat
kəʊt
cote
kəʊt
cross-vote
ˌkrɒsˈvəʊt
devote
dɪˈvəʊt
float
fləʊt
houseboat
ˈhaʊsˌbəʊt
note
nəʊt
outvote
ˌaʊtˈvəʊt
overvote
ˌəʊvəˈvəʊt
predevote
ˌpriːdɪˈvəʊt
promote
prəˈməʊt
quote
kwəʊt
remote
rɪˈməʊt
revote
ˌriːˈvəʊt
throat
θrəʊt
tote
təʊt
undervote
ˈʌndəˌvəʊt
vote
vəʊt
wrote
rəʊt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROTEST VOTE

proteome
proteomic
proteomics
proteose
proterandrous
proterandry
proterogynous
proterogyny
Proterozoic
protervity
protest
protest demonstration
protest march
Protestant
Protestant Episcopal Church
Protestant work ethic
Protestantism
protestation
protester
protestingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROTEST VOTE

absentee vote
block vote
card vote
casting vote
composite vote
confidence vote
donkey vote
electoral vote
faggot vote
floating vote
free vote
grey vote
informal vote
popular vote
postal vote
proxy vote
straw vote
swing vote
token vote
transferable vote
voice vote

Synonyms and antonyms of protest vote in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «protest vote» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROTEST VOTE

Find out the translation of protest vote to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of protest vote from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «protest vote» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

抗议投票
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

voto de protesta
570 millions of speakers

English

protest vote
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विरोध वोट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التصويت الاحتجاجي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

протестное голосование
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

protesto voto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রতিবাদ ভোট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vote de protestation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Undi protes
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Protestwahl
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

抗議票
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

항의 투표
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Protest vote
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phản đối bỏ phiếu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எதிர்ப்பு வாக்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निषेध मतदान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Protesto oylaması
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

protesta voto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

głosowanie protest
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

протестне голосування
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vot de protest
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διαμαρτυρία ψηφοφορίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

protes
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

proteströst
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

protest stemme
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of protest vote

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROTEST VOTE»

The term «protest vote» is regularly used and occupies the 94.999 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROTEST VOTE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about protest vote

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROTEST VOTE»

Discover the use of protest vote in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to protest vote and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
European Parliament Elections After Eastern Enlargement
Another popular explanation of support for radical right parties is the protest vote model (Mayer and Perrineau 1992; Betz 1994; Martin 1996; Derks and Deschouwer 1998; Mudde and van Holsteyn 2000; Swyngedouw 2001; Bélanger and ...
Hermann Schmitt, 2014
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Turkish Politics and the Rise of the AKP: Dilemmas of ...
Testing the protest-vote hypothesis: an aggregate-level analysis According to the proponents of the protest-vote hypothesis and its variants (Yesilada 2002a, Akarca and Tansel 2002, Baslevent, Kirmanogˇlu and S ̧enatalar 2005), the rise of ...
Arda Can Kumbaracibasi, 2009
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Movements of Exclusion: Radical Right-wing Populism in the ...
However, the protest vote, to have an analytical meaning, should be defined as a self- standing category and not be defined formally as a vote for a protest party. A substantive definition of protest vote has recently been suggested by Van der ...
Jens Rydgren, 2005
4
Protest Vote: Britain's Maverick Politicians
Through riveting inside accounts, this book tells how British politicians exploit the behind-the-scenes struggles in the major parties.
Timothy Newark, 2014
5
New Zionism and the Foreign Policy System of Israel
A major reason for the confusion stems from the fact that the Oriental defection' from the Labour Alignment has been normally described as a protest vote. A perusal of the literature on electoral behaviour reveals that there is a certain ambiguity ...
Ofira Seliktar, 1986
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From Protest to Parties: Party-Building and Democratization ...
Where an opposition party monopolizes the “protest vote,” it demonstrates some ability to reach across geographic and, possibly, other political divisions in order to coordinate the actions of voters. This may indicate strong party organization ...
Adrienne LeBas, 2013
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The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent ...
Nevertheless, even if the protest vote could be considered to be high, it is not clear why voting for 0 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 the opposition would displace rather than complement other forms of. Figure 5.2. Working days lost to strikes ...
Graeme B. Robertson, 2010
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Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent ...
In New Jersey, where women had had the vote until 1807, a group attempted to vote in 1868, then staged a protest “vote in” at the other end of the voting hall. The Grimké sisters entered a protest at their polling place in Hyde Park, New York, ...
Roger Powers S, 2012
9
The Pope's Battalions: Santamaria, Catholicism and the Labor ...
In South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, the DLP vote had dropped, and the protest vote had gone to independent candidates, two of whom, Syd Negus in Western Australia and Michael Townley in Tasmania, had been elected , ...
Ross Fitzgerald, Adam James Carr, William J. Dealy, 2003
10
Class Politics and the Radical Right
They contend that the vote for the radical right is best described as a protest vote. In the literature, the concept of the “protest vote” consists of two elements. The first element that distinguishes a protest vote from other types of vote is that ...
Jens Rydgren, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROTEST VOTE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term protest vote is used in the context of the following news items.
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General Election 2015: Does your vote count?
About 90 per cent of over-50s in the UK intend to vote in the General Election, ... from Hemel Hempstead, will be submitting a protest vote at this year's election. «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
2
Speaker Boehner Faces Protest Votes, But No Real Threat
But a day before the Tuesday vote, two Republican members—Reps. ... He cites a number of reasons why he protests another two years of Speaker Boehner, ... «TIME, Jan 15»
3
Catalan people to make biggest ever protest vote
That is because Sunday's independence referendum - like so much of the imaginative home rule campaign in the north-eastern Iberian nation - is to be purely ... «Herald Scotland, Nov 14»
4
VIDEO: Barcelona bangs pans to protest vote ban
Thousands of people in Barcelona gathered on their balconies last night and banged spoons against saucepans in a noisy protest against a decision by the ... «The Local.es, Nov 14»
5
Bill Clinton: Picking David Perdue is 'a protest vote.' Michelle Nunn …
ATLANTA -- His voice sounding dry and hoarse, former president Bill Clinton ridiculed Georgia Republican Senate candidate David Perdue during a brief stop at ... «Washington Post, Oct 14»
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Prepare for surprises as Ukip gathers up the protest voters
Is Ukip, in other words, the repository of the protest vote, just as the Liberals once were – capable of pulling off surprises that have no long-term implications? «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 14»
7
Bill Clinton begs voters not to punish Democrats with angry 'protest
But his larger theme was castigating Republicans for generating anger against Obama, saying Monday that 'they want you to make this a protest vote.' 'They're ... «Daily Mail, Oct 14»
8
The Front National's success in France shows that “protest votes
Some claim the FN is a protest vote, a vote of anger against a political class seemingly so oblivious to the daily struggles of many people trying simply to ... «New Statesman, May 14»
9
Sarah Wollaston MP: My European elections protest vote
I would like to cast a protest vote in Thursday's elections to the European Parliament. I want to protest about the breathtaking scale of waste that runs through ... «Western Morning News, May 14»
10
A Rare Protest Vote From Wal-Mart Shareholders
Roughly 10% of 3 billion shares voted were cast against Robson Walton, board chairman and son of founder Sam Walton, and more than 12% were cast against ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 13»

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