plebiscite

Still, investors remain nervous about the fallout from Thursday’s plebiscite.

From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026

In the daily plebiscite on America, this Ivy League historian votes “Yes, but.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

History is not a plebiscite in which 50% of the current population decides what’s true and important.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024

This made it more a plebiscite than an actual election, with posters of Hadi above each ballot box.

From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2024

The result of the election was regarded as the plebiscite upon the question of annexation, and also upon the Oregon question, but more especially upon the former.

From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by John William Burgess

Formerly German territories awarded to Poland and Denmark had Danish- and Polish-speaking majorities who voted decisively in League of Nations plebiscites that they did not wish to remain with Germany.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023

None of the plebiscites has been binding, however, and turnout has often been low, amid boycotts by critics who support the status quo or independence.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

After plebiscites in 1983, one island chain became the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, thereby remaining part of the United States, adjacent to Guam, long a U.S. territory.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022

In 20 years of reporting from Europe, I had never stayed up for a Super Bowl or U.S. presidential election—and I wasn’t about to begin making exceptions for British plebiscites.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2016

“Write that down, Adah. If we don’t boil our water for thirty full minutes we’ll get plebiscites and what not.”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver