verb
- received more votes than (another candidate or party) in an election
Usage: past tense of outpoll
Examples
- The incumbent senator outpolled her challenger by a wide margin.
- Despite heavy campaigning, he was outpolled in every district.
- The Democratic candidate outpolled the Republican by 15,000 votes.
- She outpolled three other candidates to win the primary.
- The mayor was outpolled for the first time in twenty years.
- Exit polls showed that younger voters outpolled older ones in turnout.