election

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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?”

   “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.”

2. (countable, uncountable)The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.

   “The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.”

3. (countable, uncountable)An option that is selected.

   “W-4 election”

4. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Any conscious choice.

   “Whosoever searcheth all the circumstances and embraceth all the consequences thereof hindereth his election.”

   “To use men with much difference and election is good.”

   “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 […]”

5. (countable, uncountable)In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.

   “[H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]”

6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Those who are elected.

   “The election hath obtained it.”