Election a. : The act of choosing; choice; selection.

Election a. : The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.

Election a. : Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.

Election a. : Discriminating choice; discernment.

Election a. : Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.

Election a. : The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.

Election a. : Those who are elected.

Example:
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Taxonomy
elections, democracy, referendums, Suffrage, nomination, electorate, voters, citizens, office, states, exceptions, candidate, campaigns, power, free encyclopedia, legislature, Electoral systems, history of elections.

Defination from the web:
Elections were used as early in history as ancient Greece and ancient Rome, and throughout the Medieval ... In most democratic political systems, there are a range of different types of election, corresponding to different layers of public governance or geographical jurisdiction. ...