Phrase Hound found 32 phrases and 18 compound words that contain election. The most common are listed below. Open election in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 32
- general electionAn election following the regular procedure to elect officers in all or most constituencies or electoral districts of a region or nation.
- election campaignAn organised effort by individuals or their parties to persuade voters to vote for them in an election.
- primary electionA preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
- special electionAn election scheduled at other than the usual date for a specific purpose, often to fill an office that has become vacant before the incumbent has completed the term.
- Election DayThe day on which a general election is designated to be held.
- Presidential election
- Election results
- Federal election
- snap electionAn election that is called earlier than the regularly scheduled election time.
- Election cycle
- election campaignsplural of election campaign: An organised effort by individuals or their parties to persuade voters to vote for them in an election.
- unconditional electionA doctrine, one of the Five Points of Calvinism, stating that Jesus Christ's substitutionary atonement on the cross is extended to those predestined to become a believer, at God's discretion and without condition.
- election silenceThe practice of banning political campaigning and/or media coverage of an election for a certain time period before or during the election.
- election nightThe evening after an election, during which the votes are being counted.
- re-electionAlternative spelling of reelection: Act of electing to office one previously elected to and serving in office.
- election thresholdA minimum percentage of votes that a party needs to receive in order to obtain a parliamentary seat.
- direct electionAn election process in which the voters directly cast ballots for the person, persons, or political party that they desire to see elected.
- e-electionAn election held online, with participants voting remotely by means of computer technology.
- wave electionAn election in which a political party makes major gains.
- pre-electionAlternative form of preelection: An election beforehand.
- election cakeA cake served in New England at various events, particularly around the election of officials.
- midterm electionA general election for all the representatives and one-third of the senators in Congress in a year without a presidential election as well.
- indirect electionAn election process in which elected persons (directly elected by voters) who will then vote and elect their choice of president.
- election of remediesThe situation of a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit having multiple options from which to choose as to how the defendant's wrong may be righted.
- bye-electionAlternative form of by-election: An election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between general elections.
Compound words 18
- preelectionAn election beforehand.
- electionlessWithout elections.
- electionlikeResembling or characteristic of an election.
- electionspeakThe jargon or rhetoric of politicians, lobbyists, and commentators during an election campaign.
- electionitisAnxiety, boredom, or fatigue over elections and political campaigns.
- pseudoelectionA sham election; an election organized without any significant political choice or real impact on the results, often held in dictatorial regimes to feign the appearance of public legitimacy.
- stealectionA rigged election, especially the 2020 United States presidential election as viewed by supporters of Donald Trump.
- unelectionThe instance of being not elected.
- antielectionOpposing an election, or elections in general.
- subelectionA secondary or subordinate election.