to be elected / to be selected

to filter

to take part in an election / to run for office

candidate (attributive)

to choose / to pick / to select / to elect

to optimize / preferred

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

to be included among those selected for

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

to choose / to select

available / optional

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

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

choice of person / candidate

to select / to pick

to vote by ballot

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

to pick / to choose / to select

general election

primary election

to select and edit / to compile

direct election

alternative (plan, arrangement, strategy etc)

(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

compilation / selected works

to elect / to choose

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

preselection / short-listing / primary election

by-election

reelection / to reelect

democratically elected

to buy votes (in an election)

universal suffrage

to select / to sort out

to win an election

to be elected

to decant / to strain off

to select on the basis of a vote or consensus

flotation process

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

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 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

to select

newly elected

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

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

to select very carefully

presidential election

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

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