different between electorate vs election

English

Etymology

From elector +? -ate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?kt???t/

Noun

electorate (plural electorates)

1. (historical) The dominion of an Elector in the Holy Roman Empire.
2. The collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote.
3. The geographic area encompassing an electoral district.

Synonyms

• (collective people): constituency
• (geographic area): riding (Canada), constituency (United Kingdom), seat (Australia), division (Australia), ward, district, electoral district

Related terms

• elector
• electoral
• electoral district
• election
• Elector
• Electorate

Translations

References

• “electorate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

From Middle English eleccioun, eleccion, from Anglo-Norman eleccioun, from Latin ?lecti?n-, stem of ?lecti? (“choice, selection”), from ?lig? (“I pluck out, I choose”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?-l?k'sh?n, IPA^(key): /??l?k?(?)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??l?k?(?)n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n
• Hyphenation: elect?ion

Noun

election (countable and uncountable, plural elections)

1. A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.

   The parliamentary election(s) will be held in March.

   How did you vote in (UK also: at) the last election?
2. The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.

   The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.

3. An option that is selected.

4. (archaic) Any conscious choice.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Followers and Friends

     To use men with much difference and election is good.

   • 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress

     The predestinative force of a free agent's own will in certain absolute acts, determinations, or elections, and in respect of which acts it is one either with the divine or the devilish will; and if the former, the conclusions to be drawn from God's goodness, faithfulness, and spiritual presence; these supply grounds of argument of a very different character […]

5. (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
6. (obsolete) Those who are elected.

   • The election hath obtained it.

Synonyms

• (theology): chosenness

Hyponyms

• direct election
• general election
• indirect election
• primary election
• snap election

Derived terms

• by-election
• electioneer
• electioneering
• pre-election, preelection

Related terms

Translations

See also

• psephology

See also

• Election on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Predestination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle French

Noun

election f (plural elections)

1. choice; selection (person, object that is selected)
2. election (act or process of being elected to an office)