# Trying to find a song containing lyriocs "...on election day"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [November 3, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-song-containing-lyriocs-on-election-day/924667 "2020-11-03T19:28:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-song-containing-lyriocs-on-election-day/924667/1 "2020-11-03T19:28:13Z")

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I feel like it must have been the Kinks? Some British punk band? The refrain is “something something …on elEC-tion day,” yadda yadda, dumdumdedum. I’m terrible with music.

Searching “election day” and “kinks” has not, um revealed what I was seeking.

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-song-containing-lyriocs-on-election-day/924667/2 "2020-11-03T19:33:12Z")

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The band was Arcadia, a side project for a couple of the guys from Duran Duran. The song was, in fact, called “Election Day.”

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lPlGshbbjG4/hqdefault.jpg "Arcadia - Election Day (Original Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPlGshbbjG4)

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-song-containing-lyriocs-on-election-day/924667/3 "2020-11-03T19:45:38Z")

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Looks like kenobi\_65 got it. But it crossed my mind that you could have been misremembering Ray Davies’s song “Thanksgiving Day.”

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sYB22jmw3YY/hqdefault.jpg "Ray Davies - "Thanksgiving Day"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYB22jmw3YY)