most, -est

to gather / to collect / to assemble

gaining votes / a total of votes obtained

gain votes

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(politics) election / (politics, informal) campaigning

elect

to put together, to gather, to collect