Definition of Election

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Election

The act of choosing; choice; selection.

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.

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

Discriminating choice; discernment.

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

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

Those who are elected.

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Election Quotations

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
Barack Obama

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Joseph Stalin

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T. S. Eliot

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.
Joe Biden

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
Orson Welles

Election Translations

election in Afrikaans is keuse
election in Danish is valg
election in Dutch is optie, verkiezing, keuze, keur, keus
election in German is Wahl
election in Italian is elezione
election in Norwegian is valg
election in Swedish is val

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