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Voting vs Election - What's the difference?

voting | election |

As nouns the difference between voting and election

is that voting is action of the verb to voteelection is a process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.

As a verb voting

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective voting

is having an associated right for the holder to vote as an owner of business.

voting

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • (finance) Having an associated right for the holder to vote as an owner of business.
  • * The cumulative voting''' preferred stock remains '''voting until all cumulative dividends are paid.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • action of the verb to vote
  • * (William Cobbett)
  • We have said all this: all this we say, and will continue to say; and we have talked, too, and shall talk, about the divers most curious votings and enactings of this House

    Derived terms

    *cumulative voting *preferential voting *voting booth *voting machine *voting paper *voting slip *voting station *voting stock

    See also

    *(wikipedia "voting")

    election

    English

    (Election)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors or other representatives by popular vote.
  • The parliamentary elections will be held in March.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.}}
  • The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
  • The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.
  • (archaic) Any conscious choice.
  • *, II.20:
  • Whosoever searcheth all the circumstances and embraceth all the consequences thereof hindereth his election .
  • * Francis Bacon
  • To use men with much difference and election is good.
  • (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
  • (obsolete) Those who are elected.
  • * Bible, Rom. xi. 7
  • The election hath obtained it.

    Derived terms

    * by-election * election theft * electioneer * electioneering * election of remedies * general election * primary election

    Synonyms

    * (theology) chosenness

    See also

    * psephology

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