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Election Day and Night
The election day is the day that an election is held. In some countries, these days are holidays or specifically held on a weekend so as to increase voter turnout. Germany, for example, always holds its elections on a Sunday, while the United Kingdom has a tradition of Thursday elections.
Interestingly, the US Presidential election always takes place on the first Tuesday after November 1st. This has agrarian roots, but as Tuesday is now a working day, there have been numerous calls to make the US election day a holiday or a weekend.
Election night is typically the night of election day, in which the results are tallied and announced to the electorate.