"elect" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Countries with complex regional electorates may elect a head of state by means of an electoral college rather than a direct popular election.
- Each elects 6 MLAs to the 108 member NI Assembly by means of the Single Transferrable Vote system.
- Under this, you may recall, the General Assembly decreed that each signatory nation was to elect one delegate to the Assembly by means of popular vote.
- Legislators from outlying rural districts are chosen on a plurality basis, while districts located in more populous towns and cities elect multiple legislators by means of a proportion-based formula.
- (While the legislative bodies of the 22 provinces nominated their senators (two each), the Federal District of Buenos Aires elected its two senators by means of a special electoral college; senators served a nine-year term, with one-third of the Senate seats renewable every three years.)
- It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative period, by means of the first past the post system.
- Sharia law took precedence over the will of the ruler, and electing rulers by means of the Shura was an important doctrine.
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