Phrase Hound found 16 phrases and 18 compound words that contain elections. The most common are listed below. Open elections in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 16
- Presidential elections
- Parliamentary elections
- general electionsplural of general election: An election following the regular procedure to elect officers in all or most constituencies or electoral districts of a region or nation.
- Local elections
- direct electionsplural of direct election: An election process in which the voters directly cast ballots for the person, persons, or political party that they desire to see elected.
- primary electionsplural of primary election: A preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
- special electionsplural of special election: An 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.
- snap electionsplural of snap election: An election that is called earlier than the regularly scheduled election time.
- indirect electionsplural of indirect election: An election process in which elected persons (directly elected by voters) who will then vote and elect their choice of president.
- bye-electionsplural of bye-election: An election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between general elections.
- midterm electionsplural of midterm election: A general election for all the representatives and one-third of the senators in Congress in a year without a presidential election as well.
- e-electionsplural of e-election: An election held online, with participants voting remotely by means of computer technology.
- re-electionsplural of re-election: Act of electing to office one previously elected to and serving in office.
- wave electionsplural of wave election: An election in which a political party makes major gains.
- elections of remediesplural of election of remedies: The 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.
- khaki electionsplural of khaki election: In Westminster systems of government, any national election that is heavily influenced by wartime or postwar sentiment.
Compound words 18
- autoselectionsplural of autoselection: automatic selection
- contraselectionsplural of contraselection: Selection for a desirable trait that has unintended negative consequences.
- coselectionsplural of coselection: The simultaneous selection of two or more things
- counterselectionsplural of counterselection: Selection that removes unwanted characteristics.
- deselectionsplural of deselection: The process or act of deselecting.
- downselectionsplural of downselection: The process of downselecting.
- misselectionsplural of misselection: Bad or incorrect selection.
- nonelectionsplural of nonelection: Not having or relating to an election
- photoselectionsplural of photoselection: A technique in which an aligned subset of sample molecules is selected by an exciting light beam.
- preelectionsplural of preelection: An election beforehand.