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Election ɪˈlekʃn Vote Presidential Prime Minister Call Party

Word election
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / ɪˈlekʃn / NAmE / ɪˈlekʃn /
Example
  • election campaigns/results
  • how many candidates are standing for election?
  • to run for election
  • to win/lose an election
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election

(noun)BrE / ɪˈlekʃn / NAmE / ɪˈlekʃn /
  1. the process of choosing a person or a group of people for a position, especially a political position, by voting
    • election campaigns/results
    • How many candidates are standing for election?
    • to run for election
    • to win/lose an election
    • to fight an election
    • to vote in an election
    • In America, presidential elections are held every four years.
    • The prime minister is about to call (= announce) an election.
    • Who did you vote for in the last election?
    • They took a vote on who should go first.
    • They suffered a defeat at the polls.
    • The leader will be chosen by secret ballot.
  2. the fact of having been chosen by election
    • see also by-election
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/by-election
    • We welcome his election as president.
    • a year after her election to the committee

    Extra Examples

    • All counties have now certified their election returns.
    • Education is a key election issue.
    • Elections are scheduled for November.
    • It was successful in rallying voters at election time.
    • Membership of the committee is by election.
    • Predicting the result of close elections is a perilous game.
    • The Governor faces an unprecedented recall election.
    • The US is reaching the end of its latest presidential election cycle.
    • The election turnout in 2008 was high.
    • The party swept Turkish elections in November.
    • The party won a landslide election.
    • The people will decide this election and they will prove all the polls wrong.
    • The prime minister may decide to call an early election.
    • The violence in the country will not derail the elections.
    • They demanded a rerun of the disputed presidential election.
    • a bitterly disputed election
    • claims that voter fraud had stolen the election for the Republicans
    • her election to the Senate
    • in the 2001 general election
    • opinion poll results in the run-up to elections
    • the democratic concept of popular elections
    • the scheduled Lebanese elections in May
    • votes which could swing the entire national election
    • He first stood for election when he was 21.
    • It will be a hard-fought election campaign.
    • Local elections will be held later this year.
    • Presidential elections take place every four years.
    • She’s yet to say whether she will be running for election.
    • The country’s first free elections took place in 1990.
    • The first election results will be coming in very soon.
    • The party promised this in their election manifesto.
    • The prime minister is expected to call an election in the spring.
    • Who did you vote for in the last election?

    Word Origin

    • Middle English: via Old French from Latin electio(n-), from eligere ‘pick out’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + legere ‘to pick’.
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