WordNet
n. official who won the office in a free election
Usage examples of "elected official".
This annoyed Jackson, who'd served under Painter more than once, but Josh Painter wasn't a man able to call an elected official by his Christian name.
In a way, it's refreshing to find an elected official who makes absolutely no attempt to conceal obvious conflicts of interest.
He's never wanted to be an elected official, and therefore cannot be a minister per se, but he has the president's ear because he is both intelligent and honest—.
He's never wanted to be an elected official, and therefore cannot be a minister per se, but he has the president's ear because he is both intelligent and honest -- and he's a patriot in the true sense.
As a successful senator, Glancey had learned to pay attention to what the field managers of other senators said, for he appreciated how much an elected official owed to the men who kept the machine rolling.
Within an hour, every elected official living in Grantville had arrived at the school.
Despite all the unnatural acts that had been performed on the Constitution, it was only proper that mankind's highest elected official speak for humanity on such an occasion as the reactivation of the Grand Alliance that had crushed the Rigelians.
And Parliament may, at its own discretion, summon any elected official—.
And Parliament may, at its own discretion, summon any elected official-including the President-to answer before its members for the proper discharge of his or her duties.
Being a high-profile elected official, subject to the whims of voters every so often, he would certainly hide behind an alias.
Jacona was already divided into precincts, with an elected official, the precinct captain, responsible for arranging local matters such as street repair with the city.
Upon closer examination, her story glides over one critical fact: Her decision not to change her name had been made long before her husband became a statewide elected official.
I painted the picture of an aggressive young reporter desperately searching for the truth and being stiff-armed by an elected official.
Maybe it was this simple: any newly elected official was seduced into the game the same way Cleopatra had snookered Gaius Julius Caesar.
Maybe it was this simple: any newly elected official was seduced into the game the same way Cleopatra had snook.