Participates in an election

Usage examples of votes.

Israel that only has, like, five seats in the Knesset, but their five votes are always needed to form a majority government.

Al Gore received the votes of more than 90 percent of them on November 7, 2000.

Bush would officially be credited with receiving 537 more votes than Al Gore in Florida.

The networks called this thing awfully earlier and people are actually counting the votes have different perspective so.

By that percentage, 544 of the votes that went to Bush should have been thrown out.

Democrat in the House stood up and challenged the votes of the electoral college.

Gore the election he rightfully won were the five justices of the Supreme Court who would not let all the votes be counted.

Cantwell received 1,199,437 of the votes while her opponent, Slade Gorton, received 1,197,208.

Eighteen was the majority, so eighteen votes were all Gabinius needed.

But the great majority remained in the urban tribes of Suburana and Esquilina, which were the two most enormous tribes Rome owned, yet were able to deliver only two votes in the tribal Assemblies.

Knowing themselves possessed of worthless votes, many freedmen had obliged him.

Catilina lagged behind Servius Sulpicius, though he did get more votes than Lucius Cassius.

Too poor to belong to a Class, the urban Head Count usually belonged to an urban tribe, and therefore owned no worthwhile tribal votes either.

If he entered the Roman political arena he relied upon his military reputation to catch votes, but many Military Men never bothered to enter the political arena at all.

However, I have sometimes used it to refer to those whose votes had value.