0 a large number of votes that are made in the same way by one person who represents a large group of people
1 a system of voting in which one person represents a group of people, for example the members of a trade union, and votes for them:
In 18321885 the block vote was used to elect two members and first past the post to return one member at by-elections.
We are the authors of the amendments which you have just put to a block vote.
She had a block vote system in which the party which got the greatest number of votes got all the seats.
What will he do to end the absurdity of the block vote system at annual general meetings?
Coming from the party with the trade union block vote, that is just amazing.
I entirely dislike the plan of a block vote.
We should apply similar standards to the exercise of what is, in effect, a massive business block vote.
Few people hear the arguments and then the block vote is trooped in—or bussed in—and that is that.
