noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a business/economic/election etc cycle (=related events in business, the economy etc that repeat themselves over a certain period)
▪ the presidential election cycle
a campaign/election promise
▪ He was accused of breaking a campaign promise not to raise taxes.
a campaign/election slogan
▪ His campaign slogan was ‘Peace, stability and prosperity’.
a party wins/loses an election
▪ Do you think the Labour Party can win the next election?
an election broadcast (=shown before an election to persuade people to vote for a party)
▪ a Labour party election broadcast
an election rally
▪ The senator was due to address an election rally that evening.
an election/campaign/manifesto pledge
▪ The governor had kept her campaign pledge to slash taxes.
an election/electoral campaign
▪ He was candidate in the 2008 election campaign.
an election/electoral defeat
▪ It was their worst general election defeat since 1982.
an election/electoral victory
▪ The Democrats were celebrating their election victory.
an electoral/election contest
▪ What will be the outcome of the electoral contest?
campaign/election trail
▪ politicians on the campaign trail
election/carnival etc fever (=great interest or excitement about a particular activity or event)
▪ Soccer fever has been sweeping the nation as they prepare for the World Cup.
election/market etc day (=the day when an election, market etc takes place)
▪ Wednesday is market day in Oxford.
election/sports/political etc coverage
▪ He claims the election coverage has been biased against him.
fight an election/a campaign
▪ The prime minister decided to fight an early general election.
forthcoming elections
▪ the forthcoming elections
free elections
▪ He became president following the country’s first free elections last year.
general election campaign
▪ during the 1987 general election campaign
general election
▪ during the 1987 general election campaign
hold...general election (=have a general election)
▪ an attempt to persuade the government to hold a general election
leadership election
▪ The next leadership election is due in November.
legislative elections
▪ legislative elections
primary election
seek election/re-election (=try to be elected or re-elected)
▪ He hasn’t decided whether to seek re-election.
win an election
▪ Which party is likely to win the election?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
congressional
▪ In the Congressional elections of 1942 the trend away from New Deal reform continued as the Republicans increased their numbers.
▪ More crime legislation is expected as the Nov. 5 congressional elections approach.
▪ It reflected growing concern about the level of spending on congressional election campaigns.
▪ As the country braces for congressional and municipal elections in March, reconciliation takes on particular importance.
▪ Next year brings the mid-term Congressional elections.
▪ There were even a few concessions to the responsive chords the Republicans struck in the 1994 congressional elections.
▪ State and local parties have also become significantly less important as campaign organizations for Congressional elections.
▪ And the last congressional election demonstrated that the tactical politics of Mediscare and Gingriphobia are inadequate.
direct
▪ Now he is giving himself the chance to be chosen by direct election again, thus gaining a mantle of legitimacy.
▪ His opponents say his return was a violation of a town code calling for direct election of the mayor.
▪ In the event direct elections were held.
▪ One made the protection of the environment a constitutional obligation; the other provided for the direct election of mayors and Landräte.
▪ It provided for a separation of powers, the establishment of a constitutional court and the holding of direct presidential elections.
▪ These would be the first direct elections under the 1976 Constitution to the second and third tiers of government.
▪ During municipal elections last December he pushed for direct elections, in place of the old system of lists controlled by party bosses.
▪ In direct elections for 272 of the 360 Supreme Soviet seats there were on average five candidates for each seat.
early
▪ Cossiga emphasized in a television interview that compromise had been necessary to avoid an early general election.
▪ Instead, the center-right opposition coalition that is leading the street demonstrations is demanding early elections.
▪ The bomb followed the announcement on Tuesday that early regional elections will be held in May.
▪ But the prospect of an early general election has concentrated minds.
▪ The financial strain of the earlier primary elections means there will not be a television-advertising blitz in California.
▪ Defeat on a confidence motion would prompt an early general election.
▪ An early election would have concealed these problems.
forthcoming
▪ He explained his resignation on the grounds that he wanted to spend more time preparing his candidacy for forthcoming presidential elections.
▪ Is the practice of marking each voting counterfoil with the electors electoral role number to continue in the forthcoming election?
▪ The final communiqué reported the decision to establish an observation committee to monitor the cease-fire as well as the forthcoming elections.
▪ Under the Bill parties must give half the candidates' places in forthcoming town council elections to women.
▪ Increasingly, the key domestic political issue was the forthcoming presidential election of 1992.
▪ He is running for a place on its ruling council in the forthcoming elections.
▪ Parties adopt or disavow policies not only to win forthcoming elections but also as a response to past electoral outcomes.
▪ The Labour Party is currently establishing Labour groups overseas in order to mobilise support for the forthcoming general election.
free
▪ The first genuinely free elections since 1945 were held in March 1990.
▪ All adults enjoy the right to vote in free general elections that must be held at least every 5 years.
▪ The Bonn government said the resignation was insufficient and free elections must follow.
▪ Mazowiecki also conceded that the first fully free elections should take place later in the year.
▪ A democratic, parliamentary system of government has been set up with free elections at least once every five years.
▪ They also pressed for free elections.
▪ This government would subsequently organize free elections within nine to 12 months.
general
▪ At the general election on March 5, Haglelgam failed to secure re-election as the at-large senator for Yap.
▪ They lost in the general elections by the two biggest margins in the post-war period.
▪ All adults enjoy the right to vote in free general elections that must be held at least every 5 years.
▪ Unemployment in his constituency has fallen by 37 percent. since the last general election.
▪ Rather than cut shabby deals, he should call a general election.
▪ Yet mass media coverage of general elections and parliamentary politics is highly personalized and concentrates on the party leaders.
▪ Gandhi was killed on May 21st, the day after the first of three days of voting in the general election.
▪ However, the legislation would not be applicable in the aftermath of the June 1992 general election.
legislative
▪ Chances are the competitive nature of state legislative elections will increase also.
▪ Abisala pledged to retain the majority of ministers in their posts until legislative elections, scheduled for Oct. 25.
▪ At the legislative elections in 1990 it had advocated a strongly right-wing economic programme.
▪ The government's unpopularity was demonstrated in the January 1991 partial legislative and local elections.
▪ All the candidates were said to be in favour of free legislative elections and economic reform.
local
▪ Candidates in local elections can expect their followers not only to vote for them but to campaign for them as well.
▪ Major said holding local elections is the best immediate way to build confidence in the stalled peace process.
▪ The 32-year-old confirmed that he will be a candidate for the Northland ward in Londonderry in the local government elections in May.
▪ This is occasionally true in local elections, where the margin between candidates can be rather small.
▪ It is, of course, conceivable that the community charge will have a bigger direct effect on local elections in future years.
▪ One explanation is that the Conservatives have not fared well in local elections.
▪ At the political level, proportional representation was abolished for local elections in 1922 and for Stormont elections in 1929.
▪ There remains a local component in local elections.
mayoral
▪ The charges will start in January 2003, a year ahead of the next mayoral election.
▪ This year the midterm nosebleed will come with an extra agony: the London mayoral election.
▪ He won the mayoral election with a stunning 62 percent of the vote.
▪ Just possibly, the politicians might begin debating that as they campaign for November's mayoral election.
▪ Uncontested mayoral elections are becoming an Orlando tradition.
▪ If so, this November's mayoral election ought to be timely.
▪ In the seven days since the Grand Forks mayoral election was held, I've visited five area communities.
multiparty
▪ The new party was setting its sights on multiparty federal elections expected by the end of the year.
▪ Municipal polls held on Jan. 19 offered the first opportunity to vote in multiparty elections.
▪ In a radio speech on April 15, Eyadema predicted a new constitution within the year and multiparty elections.
▪ They would be the first free multiparty elections since 1946.
municipal
▪ The significance of their municipal election on June 30 stretches far beyond this unfortunate town.
▪ Allegations of fraud had tainted recent municipal elections.
▪ During municipal elections last December he pushed for direct elections, in place of the old system of lists controlled by party bosses.
▪ As the country braces for congressional and municipal elections in March, reconciliation takes on particular importance.
▪ Free municipal elections were last held in 1971.
▪ In 1943, the annual conference carried a motion suggesting all local branches put forward their own candidates for municipal elections.
▪ Labour's campaign in the weeks leading to municipal elections bore all the traces of populist pragmatism.
▪ With important municipal elections due in October, they were unwilling to be associated with his highly unpopular economic austerity policies.
national
▪ Later that month it was announced that national and state-level elections would be held in Punjab in mid-June.
▪ In national elections each candidate usually had the backing of one or more of the leading papers.
▪ The electoral system would not be changed before the National Assembly elections due in March 1993.
▪ But history suggests that true realignments occur over two national elections.
▪ This will have clear implications for voting patterns at local and national elections.
▪ The arrangement sprang out of Compaq winning a contract to supply hardware, which was used to manage the 1991 national elections.
▪ S.-brokered peace agreement in Bosnia as 2. 9 million people prepare to vote in national elections scheduled Saturday.
parliamentary
▪ In 1999, only 28 competed in parliamentary elections, down from 43 four years earlier.
▪ A parliamentary election dominated by his Communist opponents.
▪ Privatization has stalled since the parliamentary election last December.
▪ The 1993 parliamentary elections resulted in a conservative landslide.
▪ The last parliamentary elections were in 1968.
▪ The result of the parliamentary election of 1970 was, therefore, crucial to the final outcome.
▪ There had been dissent over the issue of whether to contest the forthcoming parliamentary elections on separate party lists.
▪ Under the new Constitution, the President would appoint a government on the basis of the results of the parliamentary elections.
presidential
▪ Female speaker I used to work for McGovern, who challenged and lost the Presidential election to Nixon.
▪ With a presidential election nearing, Republican challenger Ronald Reagan campaigned against the sale.
▪ But presidential elections are quadrennial affairs, whereas Superbowls happened annually.
▪ However, December 1990 saw genuinely democratic presidential elections.
▪ And Republican strategists are anxious to keep them within the fold for the 1996 presidential election.
▪ The vacuum created by the postponement of the presidential elections led to a revival of campaigns for a revitalized democracy.
▪ During the 1992 presidential election, Democrats spent less than $ 325, 000 in Texas.
primary
▪ This was odd, given that they had already been cleared before the presidential primary elections held last March.
▪ Nine of those will be chosen in a state-wide primary election on March 12, the traditional date for delegate selection.
▪ Success in primary elections, it would seem, can not simply be bought by political commercials however cunningly they are crafted.
▪ Jones now must try to implement the open primary law in time for the 1998 primary elections.
▪ We are proud to present the first quadrennial awards, to be known as Lexingtons, for outstanding contributions to primary elections.
▪ The financial strain of the earlier primary elections means there will not be a television-advertising blitz in California.
▪ By comparison, the turnout for the 1992 primary election was 29 percent.
recent
▪ That concentration has become marked in recent elections.
▪ Allegations of fraud had tainted recent municipal elections.
▪ His top priority is survival, not the mandate for sweeping change his followers won in recent parliamentary elections.
▪ In the recent elections, Bustamante, who had returned from exile, had been elected as a deputy to Congress.
▪ Elected representatives hold office for three years; the most recent elections were held in February 1990.
▪ In recent elections, Propositions 187 and 209 stirred racial and political passions.
▪ Yet the reconstruction of the nation is not part of the new politics as evidenced in all the recent elections.
▪ Anyone who has noticed recent elections knows that Alan won that bet.
■ NOUN
campaign
▪ Spending on election campaigns has multiplied.
▪ Do you ever get angry at some of the things that go on in election campaigns?
▪ It reflected growing concern about the level of spending on congressional election campaigns.
▪ In the election campaign you are arguing that it's the guarantor of the transition.
▪ How can we reconcile the low frequency of expressions of emotional involvement in election campaigns with the high frequency of antagonistic partisanship?
▪ The Bishop of Oxford says this is the crucial moral issue of the election campaign.
▪ One of the issues in his last re- election campaign was that his eyelids frequently drooped during meetings.
day
▪ If the election campaign begins this low, it will sink below anything ever seen by election day.
▪ On election day, the regime brought contingents of troops into the city to vote for its candidates.
▪ The 10 p.c. gain since election day is looking increasingly sustainable.
▪ Yet he seemed eager for what is sure to be a grueling contest leading up to election day in June.
▪ Mr Hague's meeting last week was the traditional one granted to leaders of the major opposition party as election day looms.
▪ Primary election day is September 16.
▪ The expectation in both camps is that a bombing so close to election day would mean certain defeat for Peres.
▪ By election day, only 44 percent actually voted for it.
leadership
▪ I don't know if the general public has fully grasped just how undemocratic the present Labour leadership election rules are.
▪ Many observers say that if the leadership election were held now, Redwood could topple Major or at least come close.
▪ He had been moving towards resignation since being routed by Mr Smith in the July leadership election.
▪ Labour is now embarked on a leadership election.
▪ At the leadership elections expected today, it is their votes that will determine the outcome.
▪ There should be a provision for annual leadership elections in the Parliamentary Party.
▪ In the leadership elections scheduled for mid-February 1992 it was expected that Peres would be challenged by Rabin.
▪ So leadership elections are as much a threat as an opportunity for the left.
november
▪ Although Illinois is considered a pivotal state, California is by far the most important political prize in the November election.
▪ Nothing happened, however, because Congress was eager to adjourn for the November elections.
▪ Both sides suggested they may just fight out their dispute in the November elections.
▪ Jackson soon became involved with affirmative action, the November elections and numerous other controversies around the country.
▪ And then came the November elections.
result
▪ What would it be like to be black and watch the election result in Cheltenham?
▪ This becomes crystal clear when Tuesday's election results are read alongside results of February's special election.
▪ Does that affect the general election result?
▪ He filed a complaint with the House of Representatives seeking to overturn the election result.
▪ The election result has left Green Party members confused, dismayed and dejected.
▪ Recognition of election results is not enough.
▪ His difficulty is that, as the election results showed, there is little optimism left in the population at large.
▪ Forecasts predicted that the overall election result would be close.
state
▪ Modern science Two of the fundamentalist board members were defeated in state elections last autumn.
▪ The Reform Party also has petitions pending with state election officials in Arkansas and Utah.
▪ It effectively ended when a new Legislative Assembly was formed following the November state elections.
▪ Those responding said they vote regularly in state elections.
▪ Successive state elections have seen the governing parties pummelled by a dismayed electorate.
▪ It could well lose this at the state election due in the autumn of 1994.
▪ At two state elections this month, Mrs Hanson stunned everyone by reappearing, fielding candidates and causing havoc with the results.
victory
▪ The Saatchi brothers made their names helping Mrs Thatcher to three election victories.
▪ Bill Clinton's two election victories in 1992 and 1996 owed everything to women voters.
▪ After this fourth successive Tory election victory, we think it would be better if a Labour Speaker had a turn.
▪ The election victories had lulled many of our supporters into a dangerous complacency.
▪ He came from far back in the polls to stage an upset general election victory in 1992.
▪ On 30 June the Gaullists completed their election victory.
▪ In the 1950s, 85 percent of all election victories resulted in a first contract.
year
▪ The party's political managers thought it a ruinous ploy in election year.
▪ But before this election year is over, there could be a flood.
▪ This will comfort those on the Labour side who most feared negative Nice fallout in an election year.
▪ Now it looks like that bad idea will be played out during an election year.
▪ In this election year, books about politics are as plentiful as presidential primaries.
▪ I drew a parallel between the grinding plates and the grinding, unresolved pressures underlying this election year.
▪ Unfortunately, election year is looming.
■ VERB
call
▪ He expected his successor to call elections in the autumn.
▪ Kwasniewski has said he may dissolve parliament to put the issue to rest and call for new elections.
▪ Delhi resembled an armed camp as the government pulled out all the stops to prevent a rally called to demand early elections.
▪ His opponents say his return was a violation of a town code calling for direct election of the mayor.
▪ The Prime Minister did not call an election on 7 November, because he knew that he would lose it then.
▪ Rather than cut shabby deals, he should call a general election.
▪ He had called the election three months before it was constitutionally due on the basis of favourable opinion polls.
▪ Whenever the Government want to call a general election, that is what we will do.
contest
▪ The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation.
▪ No one there had expected a contested election.
▪ Half a dozen other parties also contested the elections without securing representation.
▪ The AFL-CIO elected John Sweeney as president last October in the first contested election in its history.
▪ The Tigers say they will not contest elections until there is peace.
▪ With 223 House Republicans elected so far, the winner in a contested election would need 112 votes to win.
▪ By early 1989 over 230 parties had registered and a total of 93 parties contested the May 1990 elections.
fight
▪ He fought the 1987 election campaign.
▪ The Conservative and Unionist party will fight the next general election as the party of the Union.
▪ Is not that a terrible record on which to fight a general election, in which the Government will be defeated?
▪ Twenty parties are registered to fight the election and some of the smaller ones are making a respectable showing.
▪ There was a time when the provisionals sought to ride both horses simultaneously, fighting elections and plotting murder.
▪ He unsuccessfully fought the next three elections.
▪ It seems important, therefore, to try to establish how the decision to fight the election came about.
follow
▪ This question needs to be addressed, following the presidential election on May 20.
▪ It's said that the court follows the election results.
▪ Two other legislators were also reported to have joined the coalition following the elections.
▪ If that candidate wins a certain percentage of the vote, the party then would be recognized in the following election.
▪ A change in administrations following this years presidential election could affect how aggressively federal officials pursue the case.
▪ He played a key role in Clinton's transitionary team following the 1992 presidential election victory.
hold
▪ Gen Musharraf has promised to keep to a supreme court ruling that requires him to hold general elections by October 2002.
▪ Under conditions of a clear parliamentary majority, the choice of when to hold an election lies with the Prime Minister.
▪ We held our elections at the meeting.
▪ More likely, whoever was Prime Minister would advise her to dissolve Parliament and hold another election.
▪ In April 1950, Acheson told Rhee flatly that he had to hold elections.
▪ He challenged de Klerk to hold a whites-only election.
▪ The interim government was going to hold the first free elections in thirty years.
lose
▪ Yes, it has lost its fourth successive election.
▪ And what Republicans recall is that in each of those contests, the embattled party lost the national election.
▪ Labour claimed then that although it lost the election, it had the better campaign.
▪ Under his premiership, the Conservatives have lost one election after another.
▪ Dole is going to win or lose the election on his own.
▪ But the old idea that governments lose elections was proved wrong on April 9.
▪ Thompson also lost the election campaign.
stand
▪ If her party backed her, she said, she would stand in presidential elections later in the year.
▪ Of the 20 Cabinet ministers and ministers of state in the outgoing government to stand for election only four were returned.
▪ The right to stand for election still remained restricted to Matai.
▪ His party stood in these elections pledging to fight the undoubted problems faced by many constituents.
▪ He flatly rejected the pleas of Aung San to stand for election.
▪ Did you know that 30 Tory knights of shire and suburb are not standing at the election?
▪ On Jan. 20 Chalerm, leader of the Muan Chon, announced that he would stand in the forthcoming elections.
▪ You have said that you will stand in the presidential election next April.
vote
▪ An elector in Britain has more opportunity to vote in local elections than in national ones.
▪ From a rational choice perspective, you would be rather foolish to vote in a presidential election.
▪ The first round of voting in the presidential elections took place on Aug. 2.
▪ A new town charter gives out-of-state property-owners the right to vote in local elections.
▪ Most of them had not voted in several elections.
win
▪ Political parties compete to win elections by submitting distinct programmes from which the electorate can choose.
▪ Nationally, Clinton won the election with 43 percent of the vote to 37 percent for Bush and 19 percent for Perot.
▪ However, the Catholic parties refused to take the seats they won in the assembly elections.
▪ In return for our consent, he swore he would give it up the day after he won the election.
▪ The call, the first by any network, created the false impression that Bush had won the general election.
▪ He is a moderate who won election and later was able to parlay that experience into national exposure as a Washington outsider.
▪ Chris Patten has now joined me as a party chairman held responsible for winning an election by running a bad campaign!
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Independence/election/Christmas etc day
▪ By election day, many observers will question why Bill Clinton and Bob Dole were nominated and why they are running.
▪ It was July 1, almost Independence Day.
▪ Legislation to outlaw Christmas Day trading looks set to be in place in time for this year's festive period.
▪ She has a rat on top of the living room door on Christmas Day, for example, and it will last her two days.
▪ Then came the Christmas Day massacre, by an Inkatha mob several hundred strong.
come up for election/re-election/selection etc
▪ At each two-yearly election one-third of the Senate comes up for re-election.
▪ It affects us all and its practitioners do not come up for re-election every five years.
snap election
▪ Henry McLeish also promised to address the deep disaffection among Labour backbenchers exposed by his snap election last weekend.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ America is preparing for the presidential elections, which will take place in two weeks time.
▪ It will be interesting to see what happens at the next election.
▪ South Africa held its first multi-racial elections in 1994.
▪ Taxation will be one of the major issues at the next general election.
▪ The government may decide to call an election early.
▪ This is Sanders' fourth trip to Washington since his election as governor.
▪ This year's presidential election will take place on November 4.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A further general election in October of the same year gave him a majority of three.
▪ A period of uncertainty such as an election causes people to be either optimistic or pessimistic.
▪ Congressional elections are by universal and compulsory adult suffrage.
▪ Federal officials said that the law required them to withhold the keys while the election outcome was in doubt.
▪ It was soldiers returning from the battlefields who're credited with making that election a labour landslide.
▪ Ten cooperative candidates ran at the 1918 general election, only one of whom was successful.
▪ This must happen once in each Parliament, usually not later than thirty-six months after the last general election.
▪ Under this pressure the Modrow government set an election date of 18 March 1990.