plural of direct election

An election process in which elected persons (directly elected by voters) who will then vote and elect their choice of president.

A election process in which the voters directly cast ballots for the person, persons, or political party that they desire to see elected.

plural of election threshold

plural of primary election

plural of snap election

(politics) An election that is called earlier than the regularly scheduled election time.

An election in which a political party makes major gains.

plural of wave election

(clinical psychology, psychiatry) Dated form of selective mutism (“A severe anxiety disorder characterized by a total inability to speak in some social settings”). In the past, some clinicians erroneously believed that individuals with elective mutism chose to remain silent in some social situations as an act of defiance. Contrary to what was once believed, the inability to speak (mutism) is involuntary, thus the potentially misleading term elective mutism has largely been supplanted by selective mutism.