A box with a paper ballot halfway into its slot, the emoji for the act of voting rather than for an election or a candidate. It shows up around elections and referendums, and just as often for any smaller decision put to a vote — a poll, a group chat's 'let's just vote on it.'
What 🗳️ means
A square blue box with a closed lid and a tiny opening that has a piece of orange paper sticking out of it. The 🗳️ Ballot Box With Ballot emoji primarily represents a typical voting system in elections. It may otherwise suggest lucky draws and collecting chits in any other event.
How and when to use it
- Use 🗳️ while sharing posts or reposts inviting your audience to vote for something/someone. It could also be from an informative perspective apart from an active way of asking for votes.
- You may use 🗳️ even in the contexts of 'secret ballots', in both literal and metaphorical ways. Like, "Do cast your votes at the secret ballot 🗳️" or "Sometimes, we misuse the power to stay anonymous 🗳️".
- Speaking of secret ballots 🗳️ may also be used to indicate 'secrecy' in suitable frameworks.
- 🗳️ not only refers to political elections, but it may also be an election at your university and any other platform for voting.
- Besides, 🗳️ also signifies a 'poll'. So, the next time you're putting up a poll on your social media story or asking a 'this or that' question to a friend in a casual conversation you can use this emoji. For instance, "So... beard or no beard 🗳️".
Other Names
- 🗳️ Secret Ballot
- 🗳️ Ballot
- 🗳️ Voting
- 🗳️ Elections
- 🗳️ Vote Box
- 🗳️ Casting Votes
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › mail
- Codepoints
U+1F5F3 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:ballot_box:GitHub- Keywords
- ballot, box
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🗳️ Ballot Box with Ballot or 🙄 Face with Rolling Eyes?