to arrive at (place or time) / period / to become due / classifier for events, meetings, elections, sporting fixtures, years (of graduation)

to elect / election / CL: 次, 個｜个

platform (at a railway station) / (Tw) (of an influential person) to publicly lend one's support (e.g. for an election candidate) / (Tw) website

general election

to take part in an election / to run for office

to come out on top / to win (in an election, contest etc) / success / victory

first round or stage (of a match, election, talks, planned policy etc)

to recount (e.g. results of election) / to re-evaluate

Cheng San (precinct in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore) / Cheng Shan GRC, formerly (until the 1997 elections) a group representation constituency (electoral division) in Singapore

direct election

by-election

election campaign

primary election

preselection / short-listing / primary election

to seize total victory (idiom); an overwhelming victory / to win by a landslide (in election)

second round (of a match or election)

to buy votes (in an election)

to run for election / to be selected; to be elected

competitive election (i.e. with more candidates than seats)

the right to be elected / the right to stand for election

public election

to fail to be chosen (or elected) / to lose an election

pier foundation (architecture) / (Tw) politically influential figure enlisted to support one side in an election

to set out (on a campaign) / to stand for election / to throw one's cap in the ring

Moussavi, Mir Hussein (1941-), candidate in Iran's disputed 2009 elections

indirect election

direct election

to be a candidate in an election or other selection process / to run for office / to turn out to vote

presidential election

(Tw) to buy off influential people (in an election, a call for tenders etc)

proportion of vote / turnout in election

second round (of match, or election)

first round (of match, or election)

to assist in a candidate's election campaign (Tw)

to win an election

election participant / candidate

multiparty election

support group (e.g. for an election candidate) / fan club

to lose a war / fig. the loser (in a competition or election)

covert activities (election rigging etc) / under-the-table manipulations / black operations

(in elections for village committees in the PRC since the 1990s) unrestricted nomination, a type of election where 1. everyone in the community is eligible to nominate somebody 2. voting is done by writing the name of one's nominee on the ballot, and 3. one's nominee can be anyone in the community (Nominees who receive the highest number of votes may be thereby elected or, more often, presented as the candidates in a further round of voting.) / (in other contexts) selection of the best contender in a process open to all comers / (in the entertainment industry) open audition

legislative elections

election assistant / running mate

election partner / running mate

(election) campaign

non-competitive election (i.e. with as many candidates as there are seats) / single-candidate election

presidential election

to buy tickets / (Tw) to buy votes (in an election)

to withdraw from an election / to drop out of an elective course

the state of play in an election; the current state of a candidate's campaign

Election Committee (Hong Kong)

election court

Tang Liang Hong (opposition candidate in Jan 1996 Singapore elections)

(Tw) a guaranteed vote; a vote from sb who consistently votes for a particular party or candidate in elections

(Tw) safe seat (in an election); stronghold (for a political party or candidate); a district in which a majority of voters consistently votes for a particular party or candidate