national election

collocation in English

meaningsofnationalandelection

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national
adjective
uk
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/us
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to ...
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election
noun[C or U]
uk
/iˈlek.ʃən/us
/iˈlek.ʃən/
a time when people vote in order to choose someone for a political or ...
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(Definition ofnationalandelectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This article argues the latter: internationally transmitted economic cycles influencenationalelectiontiming.
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Another example is voting: in what way is voting in anationalelectionindividually reciprocated?
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The unit of analysis is anationalelectionyear.
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Have you voted in all of them, in some of them, rarely voted in them or have you never voted in anationalelection?
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To test these hypotheses, we rely on individual level data measuring citizen contact with political parties and activists in the context of anationalelectioncampaign.
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It is anationalelectionyear.
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Nationalelectionprocesses have conventionally been considered a domestic matter.
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The best sources of such information arenationalelectionstudies, which typically measure respondents' policy preferences, their feelings about the competing parties and their leaders, and socio-demographic information.
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I recognise that it is much more difficult to assign party labels at a local election than at anationalelection.
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Our findings correspond to those of 10 000nationalelectionobservers.
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We do so because we do not believe that there should be pilots on such a scale in anationalelection.
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To return to the nub of my thinking, we should have limits onnationalelectioncampaign expenditure.
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Anationalelectionis already underway and it has nothing to do with this directive.
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We are discussing the firstnationalelectionin this country to be held under a proportional system.
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It is easy to imagine how restrictive this objective is for countries which are currently runningnationalelectioncampaigns.
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I come back to the original point, which is that if it is anationalelectionthey will not be able to participate.
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However, this is considered to be a normal part of anationalelectioncampaign.
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It will be submerged in thenationalelection, and many of the voters will be totally confused.
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But there is no limit onnationalelectionexpenditure.
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They must explain why we are not able to move to anationalelection.
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