Suffrage vs Election - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The right or chance to vote, express an opinion, or participate in a decision.
(countable) A vote in deciding a particular question.
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The right to vote for elected officials in a representative democracy.
(US) The right of women to vote.
(countable, Christianity) A prayer, for example a prayer offered for the faithful dead.
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* (rfdate) Creed of Pope Pius IV
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(countable, Christianity) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.
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(uncountable) Aid, intercession.
Testimony; attestation; witness; approval.
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A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors or other representatives by popular vote.
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The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
(archaic) Any conscious choice.
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(theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
(obsolete) Those who are elected.
* Bible, Rom. xi. 7
As nouns the difference between suffrage and election
is that suffrage is the right or chance to vote, express an opinion, or participate in a decision while election is a process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.suffrage
English
(wikipedia suffrage)Noun
(en-noun)- universal suffrage''''', ''women's '''suffrage''''', ''negro '''suffrage
- I firmly believe that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful.
- Lactantius and St. Austin confirm by their suffrage the observation made by heathen writers.
- Every miracle is the suffrage of Heaven to the truth of a doctrine.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "suffrage")Synonyms
* (right to vote) franchiseelection
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(Election)Noun
(en noun)- The parliamentary elections will be held in March.
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- The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.
- Whosoever searcheth all the circumstances and embraceth all the consequences thereof hindereth his election .
- To use men with much difference and election is good.
- The election hath obtained it.