Elected Elect ɪˈlekt President Make Verb Voters March

• voters will elect a new president on 30 march next year.
• the newly/democratically elected government
• an elected representative/official/assembly
• what changes will he make if he gets elected?

elect

Verb Forms

1. to choose somebody to do a particular job by voting for them
• Voters will elect a new president on 30 March next year.
• the newly/democratically elected government
• an elected representative/official/assembly
• What changes will he make if he gets elected?
• She became the first black woman to be elected to the Senate.
• He was elected (as) MP for Oxford East.
• The party first elected her leader in 2017.

Extra Examples

• Five were successful, three being elected unopposed.
• He was elected to Parliament in 1997.
• It was decided that the president should be elected directly in free elections.
• Members of the council are elected annually.
• She has been elected to Parliament.
• They make their own rules and elect their own leaders.
• Each officer shall be elected for one term of two years.
2. to choose to do something
• Increasing numbers of people elect to work from home nowadays.
• Several of the tenants have elected to move to smaller premises.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Latin elect- ‘picked out’, from the verb eligere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + legere ‘to pick’.