to choose / to pick / to select / to elect

athlete / contestant

to select; to pick / choice; option; alternative

to choose / to select

(at a school) to take as an elective / an elective / elective (subject)

to be elected; to be selected

to select on the basis of a vote or consensus

to elect / election / CL: 次, 個｜个

to select the best

to choose for some purpose / to select and use

option; alternative; choice / to choose a project

to filter

to be included among those selected for

choice of person / candidate

to take part in an election / to run for office

to elect / to choose

voter / constituency / electorate

evaluation committee; judging panel / judging panel member; adjudicator (abbr. for 評選委員會委員｜评选委员会委员)

general election

candidate / CL: 名

to select; to choose; to decide on

beauty contest

candidate (attributive)

to choose

available / optional

first choice / premium / to come first in the imperial examinations

to choose by oneself / free to choose / optional / self-service

excerpt / selection (from a book) / to select / to choose an extract

to select courses

anthology

to select and purchase / to buy

primary election

direct election

to select talented individuals / (sports) draft

electoral district / constituency

preselection / short-listing / primary election

compilation / selected works

carefully chosen / handpicked / best of the bunch / choice (product) / concentration (mining) / to concentrate / to winnow

to select / to detail / to set apart / to appoint

seed selection / breeding

to optimize / preferred

to pick out / to select / to elect

to select a suitable site / site / location

to select / to choose / to settle on

to select; to pick

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

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

(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

to pick / to choose / to select

flotation process

to select / to sort out

selected works (poems, documents etc); anthology

alternative (plan, arrangement, strategy etc)

a vote; ballot / CL: 張｜张

by-election

anthology / selected works

to vote by ballot

to select and send over

reelection / to reelect

universal suffrage

to select and edit / to compile

to choose an appropriate location

democratically elected

an excerpt / a digest

to buy votes (in an election)

chosen and called

selected (for admission) / elected

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

to cast actors for a film, play etc

product selection

(old) to select talented scholars for government service (through exams etc) / (Zhou dynasty) distinguished individuals selected and recommended from various regions to the central government

election campaign

to win an election

optional (equipment)

to have no other choice

to choose freely; to pick whichever one fancies

presidential election

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

selective listening (linguistics)

to decant / to strain off

to call for entries and select the best / to solicit (entries, submissions, applications etc) / to select (the best candidate) / contest / competition

(software) menu

selective / selectiveness / selectivity

to be elected

natural selection

presidential election

Ye Xuanping (1924-2019), former Governor of Guangdong 廣東｜广东

check box

election participant / candidate

Selected Works of Mao Zedong

to select very carefully

voter registration

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

election partner / running mate

to select / (computing) to click on (one of several options) / to navigate to (a webpage)

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

free agency

Electoral College (of the United States)

multiple-choice question

Selected Works of Mao Zedong (abbr. for 毛澤東選集｜毛泽东选集)