The act of choosing; choice; the act of selecting one or more from others. Hence appropriately,

The act of choosing a person to fill an office or employment, by any manifestation of preference, as by ballot, uplifted hands or viva voce; as the election of a king, of a president, or a mayor. Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom.

Choice; voluntary preference; free will; liberty to act or not. It is at his election to accept or refuse.

Power of choosing or selecting.

Discernment; discrimination; distinction. To use men with much difference and election is good.

In theology, divine choice; predetermination of God, by which persons are distinguished as objects of mercy, become subjects of grace, are sanctified and prepared for heaven. There is a remnant according to the election of grace. Romans 11:5.

The public choice of officers.

The day of a public choice of officers.

Those who are elected. The election hath obtained it. Romans 17:7.