plural of direct election

plural of indirect election

An election process in which elected persons (directly elected by voters) who will then vote and elect their choice of president.

(politics) An election that is called earlier than the regularly scheduled election time.

plural of primary election

plural of snap election

plural of election threshold

An election in which a political party makes major gains.

plural of wave election

(clinical psychology, psychiatry) Dated form of selective mutism (“A severe anxiety disorder characterized by a total inability to speak in some social settings”). In the past, some clinicians erroneously believed that individuals with elective mutism chose to remain silent in some social situations as an act of defiance. Contrary to what was once believed, the inability to speak (mutism) is involuntary, thus the potentially misleading term elective mutism has largely been supplanted by selective mutism.