0 to decide on or choose, especially to choose a person for a particular job, by voting -- 選舉，推選
The President is elected for a four-year term of office. 總統任期四年。
[ + as + noun ] We elected him as our representative. 我們選他當代表。
[ + noun ] She was elected Chair of the Board of Governors. 她被選爲董事會主席。
[ + to infinitive ] The group elected one of their members to be their spokesperson. 該團體選出了他們的一名成員代表他們發言。
She elected to take early retirement instead of moving to the new location. 她不想搬去新的工作地點，就選擇了提前退休。
1 in the Bible, people who are chosen by God -- （《聖經》中所稱的）上帝的選民
2 the person who has been voted to be president, prime minister, etc. but has not yet started work -- 候任總統／首相等
Representatives were elected by ballot.
Politicians should be accountable to the public who elected them.
After handing over power to elected civilians in 1969, the military struck again in 1972.
The type of political system established after the return to competitive electoral politics had an impact on the number of women elected in both countries.
Now, clearly, liberal democratic states can and do use coercive means in order to implement policies that have been agreed amongst democratically elected representatives.
