Etymology
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From Middle English eleccioun, eleccion, from Anglo-Norman eleccioun, from Latin ēlectiōn-, stem of ēlectiō (“choice, selection”), from ēligō (“I pluck out, I choose”). Equivalent to elect + -ion.
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election (countable and uncountable, plural elections)
- A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.
- The parliamentary election(s) will be held in March.
- How did you vote in (UK also: at) the last election?
2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times[1]:That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.
- The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
- The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.
- An option that is selected.
W-4 election
- (archaic) Any conscious choice.
1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Followers and Friends”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:To use men with much difference and election is good.
1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress:The predestinative force of a free agent's own will in certain absolute acts, determinations, or elections, and in respect of which acts it is one either with the divine or the devilish will; and if the former, the conclusions to be drawn from God's goodness, faithfulness, and spiritual presence; these supply grounds of argument of a very different character […]
- (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
1684, John Bunyan, A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity: Or, An Exhortation to Christians to be Holy, London: […] B. W. for Benj[amin] Alsop, […], →OCLC, page 3:[H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]
- (obsolete) Those who are elected.
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process of choosing a new leader or representatives by popular vote
- Afrikaans: verkiesing (af)
- Albanian: zgjedhje (sq) f
- Amharic: ምርጫ (mərč̣a)
- Antillean Creole: léléksion
- Arabic: اِنْتِخَاب m (intiḵāb), اِنْتِخَابَات pl (intiḵābāt)
- Armenian: ընտրություններ (hy) pl (əntrutʻyunner)
- Assamese: নিৰ্বাচন (nirrason)
- Asturian: eleición f
- Azerbaijani: seçki (az)
- Belarusian: вы́бары m pl (výbary)
- Bengali: নির্বাচন (bn) (nirbacon), ইন্তেখাব (bn) (intekhab)
- Breton: votadeg (br) f, eleksion f
- Bulgarian: и́збори (bg) m pl (ízbori)
- Burmese: ရွေးချယ်တင်မြှောက်ပွဲ (my) (rwe:hkyaitanghmraukpwai:), ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ (my) (rwe:kaukpwai:), ရွေးချယ် (my) (rwe:hkyai)
- Catalan: elecció (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 選舉／选举 (syun2 geoi2)
- Dungan: щүанҗү (xüanžü)
- Eastern Min: 選舉／选举 (sōng-gṳ̄)
- Gan: 選舉／选举 (xyon3 jy3)
- Hakka: 選舉／选举 (PFS: sién-kí; Guangdong: xiên3 mu3)
- Hokkien: 選舉／选举 (zh-min-nan) (soán-kú / soán-kír / soán-kí)
- Mandarin: 選舉／选举 (zh) (xuǎnjǔ)
- Wu: 選舉／选举 (5shi-ciu)
- Coptic: ⲯⲩⲫⲟⲥ (psuphos)
- Czech: volby (cs) f pl
- Danish: valg (da) n
- Dutch: verkiezing (nl) f
- Esperanto: elekto, balotado
- Estonian: valimine, valimised pl
- Faroese: val (fo) n
- Finnish: vaali (fi)
- French: élection (fr) f
- Friulian: elezion f
- Galician: elección (gl) f
- Georgian: არჩევნები pl (arčevnebi)
- German: Wahl (de) f
- Greek: εκλογή (el) f (eklogí), εκλογές (el) f pl (eklogés)
- Ancient Greek: ἀρχαιρεσίαι f pl (arkhairesíai), αἵρεσις f (haíresis), χειροτονία f (kheirotonía)
- Gujarati: ચૂંટણી (cū̃ṭṇī)
- Hebrew: בְּחִירוֹת (he) (bkhirot)
- Hindi: चुनाव (hi) m (cunāv), इंतिख़ाबात pl (intixābāt), निर्वाचन (hi) m (nirvācan), इंतिख़ाब m (intixāb)
- Hungarian: választás (hu)
- Icelandic: kosningar (is) f pl
- Ido: elekto (io)
- Indonesian: pemilihan (id)
- Irish: toghchán m
- Italian: elezione (it) f
- Japanese: 選挙 (ja) (せんきょ, senkyo)
- Kabuverdianu: ileison
- Kannada: ಚುನಾವಣೆ (kn) (cunāvaṇe)
- Kazakh: сайлау (sailau)
- Khmer: ការបោះឆ្នោត (kaa bɑh chnaot)
- Korean: 선거(選擧) (ko) (seon'geo)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ھەڵبژاردن (ckb) (hellbjardin)
- Northern Kurdish: hilbijartin (ku)
- Kyrgyz: шайлоо (ky) (şayloo)
- Lao: ການເລືອກຕັ້ງ (lo) (kān lư̄ak tang)
- Latvian: vēlēšanas f pl
- Lithuanian: rinkimai (lt) m pl
- Macedonian: избори m pl (izbori)
- Malay: pilihan raya (ms)
- Jawi: ڤيليهن راي (pilihan raya)
- Malayalam: തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് (ml) (tiraññeṭuppŭ)
- Maltese: elezzjoni f pl
- Manx: reihys m
- Maori: pōtitanga
- Marathi: निवडणूक (mr) f (nivaḍṇūk)
- Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭩𐭧𐭲𐭭 (ʿyḥtn)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: сонгууль (mn) (songuulʹ)
- Mongolian: ᠰᠣᠩᠭᠤᠭᠤᠯᠢ (soŋɣuɣuli)
- Norman: êlection f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: valg (no) n
- Nynorsk: val n
- Occitan: eleccion (oc) f
- Odia: ନିର୍ବାଚନ (or) (nirbacônô)
- Oromo: filannoo
- Pashto: ټاکنه (ps) f (ṭākǝna), انتخابات (ps) m pl (entexābāt)
- Persian:
- Dari: اِنْتِخَابَات (fa) (intixābāt), اِنْتِخَاب (fa) (intixāb)
- Iranian Persian: اِنْتِخابات (fa) (entexâbât), اِنْتِخاب (fa) (entexâb)
- Piedmontese: elession f
- Plautdietsch: Wol f
- Polish: wybory (pl) nvir
- Portuguese: eleição (pt) f
- Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi: ਚੋਣ f (coṇ), ਨਿਰਵਾਚਨ m (nirvācan)
- Romanian: alegeri (ro) f pl, elecțiune (ro) f (rare)
- Russian: вы́боры (ru) m pl (výbory)
- Sanskrit: निर्वाचनम् n (nirvācanam)
- Scottish Gaelic: taghadh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: избори m pl
- Roman: izbori (sh) m pl
- Sinhalese: මැතිවරණය (mætiwaraṇaya)
- Slovak: voľby f pl
- Slovene: volitve f pl
- Spanish: elección (es) f, elecciones (es) f pl
- Swahili: uchaguzi (sw)
- Swedish: val (sv) n
- Tagalog: eleksiyon, botohan, halalan
- Tajik: интихобот (tg) pl (intixobot)
- Tamil: தேர்தல் (ta) (tērtal)
- Tatar: сайлаулар (tt) pl (saylawlar)
- Telugu: ఎన్నిక (te) (ennika)
- Thai: การเลือกตั้ง (th) (gaan-lʉ̂ʉak-dtâng)
- Tibetan: འོས་བསྡུ ('os bsdu), འོས་ཤོག ('os shog)
- Tigrinya: ምምራጽ (məmraṣ), ምርጫ (mərč̣a)
- Turkish: seçim (tr), saylav (tr)
- Turkmen: saýlav
- Ukrainian: ви́бори m pl (výbory)
- Urdu: اِنْتِخابات (ur) m pl (intixābāt), اِنْتِخاب (ur) m (intixāb)
- Uyghur: سايلام (ug) (saylam)
- Uzbek: saylov (uz), (obsolete) intixob (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự bầu cử (vi), tuyển cử (vi) (選舉)
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: etholiad (cy) m
- Yiddish: וואַלן pl (valn)
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choice of a leader or representatives
- Armenian: ընտրություն (hy) (əntrutʻyun)
- Bulgarian: и́збор (bg) m (ízbor), изби́ране n (izbírane)
- Catalan: elecció (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 選任／选任 (xuǎnrèn), 選出／选出 (zh) (xuǎnchū)
- Danish: valg (da) n
- Esperanto: elektado
- Finnish: valinta (vaaleilla) (fi)
- French: élection (fr) f
- Greek: εκλογή (el) f (eklogí)
- Japanese: 選任 (ja) (せんにん, sennin), 選出 (ja) (せんしゅつ, senshutsu)
- Kabuverdianu: ileison
- Korean: 선임(選任) (ko) (seonim), 선출(選出) (ko) (seonchul)
- Polish: wybór (pl) m
- Portuguese: eleição (pt) f
- Romanian: alegere (ro) f, selecție (ro) f, desemnare (ro) f
- Russian: избра́ние (ru) n (izbránije)
- Spanish: elección (es) f
- Tagalog: botohan, halalan, eleksiyon
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Middle French
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Election on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 