A vote proportional in power to the number of people a delegate represents, used particularly at a trade-union conference.
〈英〉集团投票表决（票的效力与所代表的人数成正比，尤用于工会会议）
Example sentencesExamples
The block vote does not exist in British political contests and it should not be allowed to come in via a blind eye being turned to allegedly ‘ethnic’ customs.
And although he broke the trade union block vote at the party conference, his longer-term strategy for Labour was not entirely clear.
Whether it will stop him becoming leader is unclear but he clearly cannot count on a Scottish block vote to help him.
Labour may not like to admit it, but the block vote saved the party from extinction in the 1980s by curbing the centrifugal forces that were tearing it apart.
They are the ones who would know because the ministries are given a block vote for consultancies.
On another plane, every other identifiable group - religious or caste - is being wooed by various political parties to secure their block vote.
I encourage you to change your voter registration to the district where your university is located, and become a block vote that your local politicians will have to deal with.
He fought to end the block vote in party elections.
We must ensure the block vote is not again sent down to London for mass-counting.
In part, that was because rule changes reduced the power of the block vote.
This had the effect of ending the union block vote.
The resolution to remove the board was defeated despite a block vote in favour of it from one particular management company.
The most powerful shareholders are the institutional investors, the rich who wield a block vote.
As with last year, a secret panel will be awarding a single block vote to the value of an extra 20 per cent of the evening's total vote.
As one might expect, he won the position by utilising the block vote, with his cronies casting thousands of votes on his behalf.
This is the month when individual choice on television is marginalised by a block vote.
In forty-eight of the fifty states the Electoral College votes cast by each state towards the election of the President are by tradition delivered as a bloc vote.
Definition of block vote in US English:
block vote
nounˌblɑk ˈvoʊtˌbläk ˈvōt
British
A vote proportional in power to the number of people a delegate represents.
〈英〉集团投票表决（票的效力与所代表的人数成正比，尤用于工会会议）
Example sentencesExamples
As with last year, a secret panel will be awarding a single block vote to the value of an extra 20 per cent of the evening's total vote.
The most powerful shareholders are the institutional investors, the rich who wield a block vote.
As one might expect, he won the position by utilising the block vote, with his cronies casting thousands of votes on his behalf.
Labour may not like to admit it, but the block vote saved the party from extinction in the 1980s by curbing the centrifugal forces that were tearing it apart.
In part, that was because rule changes reduced the power of the block vote.
On another plane, every other identifiable group - religious or caste - is being wooed by various political parties to secure their block vote.
I encourage you to change your voter registration to the district where your university is located, and become a block vote that your local politicians will have to deal with.
He fought to end the block vote in party elections.
Whether it will stop him becoming leader is unclear but he clearly cannot count on a Scottish block vote to help him.
We must ensure the block vote is not again sent down to London for mass-counting.
This is the month when individual choice on television is marginalised by a block vote.
The resolution to remove the board was defeated despite a block vote in favour of it from one particular management company.
In forty-eight of the fifty states the Electoral College votes cast by each state towards the election of the President are by tradition delivered as a bloc vote.
This had the effect of ending the union block vote.
They are the ones who would know because the ministries are given a block vote for consultancies.
And although he broke the trade union block vote at the party conference, his longer-term strategy for Labour was not entirely clear.
The block vote does not exist in British political contests and it should not be allowed to come in via a blind eye being turned to allegedly ‘ethnic’ customs.