The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:37, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Polling place → Polling station — Unless this is an WP:ENGVAR issue, polling station would seem to be the far more common terminology. Although its hardly an ideal system of measuring usage, there are 1,900,000 google hits for "polling station" versus 897,000 for "polling place". 84.92.117.93 (talk) 18:18, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: I've only ever used "polling station" (hadn't heard of "polling place" before yesterday) but looking at the gallery (I knew they'd be useful eventually!) it looks like the UK examples are all "polling station" (which I'd expect) and the (one) US example uses "polling place". I agree it could be a WP:ENGVAR issue - any US/non-UK editors like to chime in? Is "polling place" widely used in the US? Cheers, TFOWR^{This flag once was red} 10:25, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • One example for polling places in the US. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:59, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Is "polling place" the terminology used throughout the United States, or is it a regional thing? 84.92.117.93 (talk) 21:05, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • It is used in NYC] along with polling site, Chicago and LA County. Those where the next three I tried. So based on this small sample, I'd say it is in common use in the US. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:51, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. Technically, in UK elections, a polling place and a polling station are different things. (If there are a large number of voters registered to vote at one polling place, there will be more than one polling station in the same place, each set up to deal with a manageable number of electors). Indeed if certain councils had done this more readily last week, there would not have been voters left outside at 22:00.

However, regarding the article, in its present state it is fairly worthless, on the one hand it deals mostly with the UK situation, on the other hand there are a few attempts to take a wider view but these are generalities rather than any information comparing one country with another. My preferred solution would be for the article to be merged into another article somewhere. Sussexonian (talk) 19:10, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment For the record, I live in Virginia and I can't recall ever hearing "polling station." "Polling place" is definitely more common, I'd presume throughout the U.S. (I don't really have an opinion on moving the article.) Propaniac (talk) 14:48, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose: apparently, the UK has both ;-) Keep the current title, and expand to explain that "polling places" may contain "polling stations". Note that there is currently a Template:Globalize tag. TFOWR^propaganda 14:54, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.