election campaign
There was a fall in support for the Republican party at the last election.
I voted Labour in the last election.上次选举时我投了工党的票。
The election for the leadership of the council will take place on Tuesday.市政务会领袖选举将在星期二进行。
The recent free elections mark the next step in the country's progress towards democracy.最近的自由选举表明该国又朝民主迈进了一步。
He has established himself as the leading candidate in the election.他已经确立了竞选中主要候选人的地位。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Elections
absentee
absentee ballot
absentee vote
absentee voter
absentee voting
entrance poll
exit poll
first-past-the-post
flip
franchise
proxy
proxy vote
proxy voter
proxy voting
psephologist
voting
voting booth
voting machine
voting slip
whistle-stop

election | American Dictionary

election
noun[ C/U ]
us/ɪˈlek·ʃən/
politics & government
the act or occasion of being chosen for a particular job, esp. by voting:
[ C ]congressional/presidential elections
[ U ]His election to the Senate was all but assured.
[ U ]Election Day is the first Tuesday in November.

election | Business English

election
noun
uk /ɪˈlekʃən/us
[ C or U ]
a time when people vote to choose someone for an official job:
have/hold an electionBy the time of the annual meeting we will be ready to hold elections for the new executive board.
lose/win an election
election as sthThese are the nominees for election as director.
stand/run for election (to sth)She has decided that she will run for election to the Advisory Committee.
[ S ]
the fact of being chosen for an official job by people voting for you:
election as sthShe embarked on a series of sweeping changes to the company after her election as director.

Examples of election

election
Obviously, by competing in parliamentary elections, parties compete for office, but this does not mean that their goal is actually to attain office.
The government raised wages and allowed opposition parties to participate in the 1981 legislative elections.
This shows how parties have performed in each region in different elections.
Such elections require not only the active participation of political parties to ensure competition and form a government, but also to legitimise the government.
To control for this possibility, the data were quartiled on the basis of the incumbent party's support in the previous election.
The next election (1994) turned out to be disastrous for both parties.
Political parties of the so-called radical opposition boycotted the elections for this reason.
Twentythree second elections resulted in a lower effective number of parties, while only seven second elections resulted in a higher effective number of parties.
In political terms, it took an argument for boycotting the elections away from the opposition and provided it with an added incentive to participate.
Using the drawn parameters, we then simulated 1,000 elections and recorded the magnitude of each midterm loss.
To see this, consider an incumbent who is running for an election.
Thus, the election really took place before the actual balloting.
An empirical analysis demonstrates that increases in democratic quality, measured independently from electoral activities, tend to be stronger directly after elections than in non-electoral periods.
Prior to 1872, states could hold elections at their discretion.
It is across a series of elections and governments that the force of the median mandate thesis comes through clearly.
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Collocations withelection

election

These are words often used in combination with election.

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coming election
It is about making race an issue in the comingelection campaign.
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