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An example use of election in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… is not seeking re-election and who will …”
Election is the act of voting for a person or a group of people to hold a particular office or position.
the word election occurs in english on average 97.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that election can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) people, society, and culture;