Nomination vs. Election — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Nomination and Election
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Nomination
Nomination is part of the process of selecting a candidate for either election to a public office, or the bestowing of an honor or award. A collection of nominees narrowed from the full list of candidates is a short list.
Election
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century.
Nomination
The act or an instance of appointing a person to office.
Election
The act or process of electing someone to fill an office or position
Officers are chosen by election and not by appointment.
Nomination
The act or an instance of submitting a name for candidacy or appointment.
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Election
An instance of this
Did you vote in this election?.
Nomination
The state of being nominated.
Election
The fact of being elected
Her election to the Senate.
Nomination
An act or instance of nominating.
Election
An act of choosing; a selection
Your election of benefits.
Nomination
A device or means by which a person or thing is nominated. en
Election
Predestined salvation, especially as conceived by Calvinists.
Nomination
The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated; as, to win the nomination.
The nomination of persons to places being . . . a flower of his crown, he would reserve to himself.
Election
A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.
The parliamentary election(s) will be held in March.
How did you vote in (UK also: at) the last election?
Nomination
The denomination, or name.
Election
The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.
Nomination
The act of officially naming a candidate;
The Republican nomination for Governor
Election
An option that is selected.
W-4 election
Nomination
The condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election;
There was keen competition for the nomination
His nomination was hotly protested
Election
(archaic) Any conscious choice.
Nomination
An address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election;
The nomination was brief and to the point
Election
(theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
Election
(obsolete) Those who are elected.
Election
The act of choosing; choice; selection.
Election
The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.
Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom.
Election
Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
Election
Discriminating choice; discernment.
To use men with much difference and election is good.
Election
Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; - one of the "five points" of Calvinism.
There is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Election
The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.
Election
Those who are elected.
The election hath obtained it.
He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths.
Election
A vote to select the winner of a position or political office;
The results of the election will be announced tonight
Election
The act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice;
Her election of medicine as a profession
Election
The status or fact of being elected;
They celebrated his election
Election
The predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)
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