Ballot box with ballot

A ballot being dropped into a box. It stands for voting, elections and polls.

People use it for “go vote 🗳️” reminders, election day posts and results talk. In group chats it also introduces a poll, like voting on where to eat. The tone is usually civic and neutral.

Facts

Ballot box with ballot 🗳️ is an emoji in the objects category, under mail. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :ballot_box: or :ballot_box_with_ballot:. People also look for it with words like “ballot” or “box”.

Timeline

1. 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

objects · Unicode 7.0