general election

English

Noun

general election (plural general elections)

1. An election, usually held at regular intervals, in which candidates are elected in all or most constituencies or electoral districts of a nation.

Coordinate terms

• (type of election): primary, special election

Translations

election held at regular intervals

• Arabic: انتخابات عامة m pl (intiḵābāt ʿāmma)
• Catalan: elecció general f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大選／大选 (daai⁶ syun²)

  Mandarin: 大選／大选 (zh) (dàxuǎn), 大选 (zh) (dàxuǎn)

  Min Nan: 大選／大选 (zh-min-nan) (tāi-soán)

• Danish: parlamentsvalg (da) n
• Dutch: algemene verkiezingen f pl
• Esperanto: ĝenerala balotado
• Finnish: parlamenttivaalit pl, eduskuntavaalit (fi)
• French: élections générales f pl
• Galician: elección xeral f
• Georgian: საყოველთაო არჩევნები (saq̇oveltao arčevnebi)
• German: allgemeine Wahlen f pl
• Hungarian: általános választás
• Indonesian: pemilihan umum (id)
• Irish: olltoghchán m
• Italian: elezioni generali f pl
• Japanese: 総選挙 (そうせんきょ, sōsenkyo)
• Javanese: pilihan umum
• Kannada: ಸಾರ್ವತ್ರಿಕ ಚುನಾವಣೆ (kn) (sārvatrika cunāvaṇe)
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• Korean: 총선거 (chongseon'geo)
• Malay: pilihan raya umum
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: parlamentsvalg n

  Nynorsk: parlamentsval n

• Persian: انتخابات سراسری (fa) (entexâbât sarâsari)
• Polish: wybory powszechne pl
• Portuguese: eleição geral f
• Russian: всео́бщие вы́боры m pl (vseóbščije výbory)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̏пћӣ ѝзбори m pl

  Roman: ȍpćī ìzbor m pl

• Sinhalese: මහා මැතිවරණ (mahā mætiwaraṇa)
• Swedish: allmänt val (sv) n
• Thai: การเลือกตั้งทั่วไป (gaan-lʉ̂ʉak-dtâng-tûua-bpai)
• Turkish: genel seçim
• Urdu: عام انتخابات m pl (āmm intixābāt)
• Vietnamese: tổng tuyển cử (vi)
• Welsh: etholiad cyffredinol (cy) m

See also

• general election on Wikipedia.Wikipedia