election : Idioms & Phrases


by-election

  • noun a special election between regular elections
    by-election.
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By"-e*lec"tion noun
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  1. An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election.
Webster 1913

bye-election

  • noun a special election between regular elections
    by-election.
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election commission

  • noun a commission delegated to supervise an election
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election day

  • noun the day appointed for an election; in the United States it is the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November
    polling day.
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election district

  • noun one of several districts into which a city or town is divided for voting; each contains one polling place
    voting precinct.
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election fraud

  • noun misrepresentation or alteration of the true results of an election
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general election

  • noun a national or state election; candidates are chosen in all constituencies
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primary election

  • noun a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
    primary.
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right of election

  • noun in probate law: the legal right of a surviving spouse to elect to take either what the deceased spouse gave under the will or the share of the estate as set forth by statute
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To contest an election

  • . (Polit.) (a) To strive to be elected. (b) To dispute the declared result of an election.
Webster 1913

To make one's election

  • to choose.
Webster 1913

writ of election

  • noun a writ ordering the holding of an election
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