Election ɪˈlekʃn Vote Presidential Prime Minister Call Party

• election campaigns/results
• how many candidates are standing for election?
• to run for election
• to win/lose an election

election

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
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• 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’.