to choose / to pick / to select / to elect

to choose / to select

to be elected / to be selected

to select on the basis of a vote or consensus

to be included among those selected for

choice of person / candidate

to filter

to elect / to choose

to take part in an election / to run for office

general election

to optimize / preferred

available / optional

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

candidate (attributive)

first choice / premium / to come first in the imperial examinations

excerpt / selection (from a book) / to select / to choose an extract

primary election

to select and edit / to compile

direct election

to select; to pick

compilation / selected works

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

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

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

to pick / to choose / to select

flotation process

preselection / short-listing / primary election

to select / to sort out

reelection / to reelect

by-election

to vote by ballot

(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

universal suffrage

alternative (plan, arrangement, strategy etc)

to buy votes (in an election)

to win an election

to decant / to strain off

to be elected

to select

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

to select very carefully

presidential election

to withdraw from an election / to drop out of an elective course

to be chosen; to be selected

to choose freely; to pick whichever one fancies

collaborative filtering

to assist in a candidate's election campaign (Tw)

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

to select very carefully

(literary) a little while

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

newly elected

democratically elected

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

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