presidential election

optional course (in school)

Election Committee (Hong Kong)

athlete / contestant

to optimize / preferred

indiscriminate

presidential election

to select very carefully

multiple-choice question

available / optional

to choose / to select

to select (one or more options from a list) / to check (a box)

to select; to pick / choice; option; alternative

to have no other choice

carefully chosen / handpicked / best of the bunch / choice (product) / concentration (mining) / to concentrate / to winnow

primary election

to be elected; to be selected

to choose for some purpose / to select and use

to buy votes (in an election)

boxer

talent show / talent competition

beauty contest

candidate / CL: 名

Selected Works of Mao Zedong

short list

candidate (attributive)

to select and edit / to compile

to be included among those selected for

to run for election / to be selected; to be elected

general election

to decant / to strain off

to pick / to choose / to select

voter / constituency / electorate

to select courses

to choose / to pick / to select / to elect

to be chosen; to be selected

multiple-choice question

to take part in an election / to run for office

to select on the basis of a vote or consensus

reelection / to reelect

to call for entries and select the best / to solicit (entries, submissions, applications etc) / to select (the best candidate) / contest / competition

Selected Works of Mao Zedong (abbr. for 毛澤東選集｜毛泽东选集)

(in elections for village committees in the PRC since the 1990s) unrestricted nomination, a type of election where 1. everyone in the community is eligible to nominate somebody 2. voting is done by writing the name of one's nominee on the ballot, and 3. one's nominee can be anyone in the community (Nominees who receive the highest number of votes may be thereby elected or, more often, presented as the candidates in a further round of voting.) / (in other contexts) selection of the best contender in a process open to all comers / (in the entertainment industry) open audition

direct election

to pick out / to select / to elect

optional (equipment)

to select / to choose / to settle on

selective listening (linguistics)

to select and purchase / to buy

natural selection

free agency

to choose by oneself / free to choose / optional / self-service

to select the best

to elect / election / CL: 次, 個｜个

option; alternative; choice / to choose a project

to select / (computing) to click on (one of several options) / to navigate to (a webpage)

to choose freely; to pick whichever one fancies

to be a candidate in an election or other selection process / to run for office / to turn out to vote

to select talented individuals / (sports) draft

to recommend a student for admission to a higher-level school / to put a student on the recommendation track (one of several ways of gaining admission to a higher-level school in Taiwan) / abbr. for 推薦甄選｜推荐甄选

voter registration

to select / to sort out

multiparty election

to vote by ballot

election assistant / running mate

to be elected

to choose

to filter

(old) to select talented scholars for government service (through exams etc) / (Zhou dynasty) distinguished individuals selected and recommended from various regions to the central government

selected works (poems, documents etc); anthology

to select very carefully

legislative elections

(election) campaign

to choose a side (in a conflict, debate or rivalry); to take sides

an excerpt / a digest

to select; to choose; to decide on

alternative (plan, arrangement, strategy etc)

(at a school) to take as an elective / an elective / elective (subject)

to win an election

Ministry of Examination, Taiwan

selected (for admission) / elected

election campaign

to select / to detail / to set apart / to appoint

to elect / to choose

universal suffrage

Wang Xuan (1937-2006), Chinese printing industry innovator

to fail to be chosen (or elected) / to lose an election

the right to be elected / the right to stand for election

anthology

election participant / candidate

election partner / running mate

by-election

anthology / selected works

seed selection / breeding

voter / elector

(literary) a little while

(Tw) (computing) menu bar

suffrage

non-competitive election (i.e. with as many candidates as there are seats) / single-candidate election

evaluation committee; judging panel / judging panel member; adjudicator (abbr. for 評選委員會委員｜评选委员会委员)