(US politics) The day on which general elections are held in the United States: the Tuesday following the first Monday in November.

(politics, government, Philippines, US) An election scheduled at other than the usual date for a specific purpose, often to fill an office that has become vacant before the incumbent has completed the term.

(politics) A preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.

plural of general election

(theology) A Christian doctrine, one of the five points of Calvinism, stating that Jesus Christ's substitutionary atonement on the cross is extended to those predestined to become a believer, at God's discretion and without condition.

plural of special election

plural of election of remedies

(law) The situation of a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit having multiple options from which to choose as to how the defendant's wrong may be righted.

An election, usually held at regular intervals, in which candidates are elected in all or most constituencies or electoral districts of a nation. / (Cockney rhyming slang) An erection.

(US) An election held every four years to elect members of Congress in years the president is not also elected.