• enPR: ĭ-lĕk'shən, IPA: /ɪˈlekʃ(ə)n/

election

1. A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors or other representatives by popular vote.

   The parliamentary elections will be held in March.

2. The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.

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

3. An option that is selected.

   W-4 election

4. (archaic) Any conscious choice.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 20, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

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

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Followers and Friends

     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. (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
6. (obsolete) Those who are elected.
   • Bible, Rom. xi. 7

     The election hath obtained it.

• (theology) chosenness

• French: élection
• German: Wahl
• Italian: elezione
• Portuguese: eleição
• Russian: вы́боры
• Spanish: elección

• French: élection
• Portuguese: eleição
• Russian: избра́ние
• Spanish: elección

• Russian: вы́бор
• Spanish: elección