I.a voting for one or in one's favor, interest, favor, support, suffrage (class.): “suffragationem, observantiam, et gratiam tollere,” Cic. Planc. 18, 44; cf.: “sublata sunt studia, exstinctae suffragationes,” id. ib. 6, 15: “in consule declarando multum etiam apud universum populum Romanum auctoritatis habet suffragatio militaris,” id. Mur. 18, 38: “urbana,” id. ib. 19, 38; cf. Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 2: “justa,” Liv. 10, 13, 13: “nec potestas nec suffragatio horum valuit,” id. 4, 44, 2; Suet. Claud. 11: “materna,” Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 24, 3: “divina,” Val. Max. 4, 7, 1: “credula,” id. 9, 15, ext. 2. —With gen. - obj.: “suffragationem consulatus perdere,” the recommendation to the consulship, Cic. Mil. 13, 34: “consulatūs,” Sall. J. 65, 5.
suffrāgātĭo (subf- ), ōnis, f. suffragor,