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# election — English to French

How English *election* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [election in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/election/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: election (78 301), elections (85 736). By style: everyday 119 · literary 3 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 12 486 · legal and administrative 2 763 · UN documents 148 662.

## élection

Used about 139 110 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 107 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 9 885 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 130 · UN documents ≈ 126 982). Forms: élection, élections.

- I won the **election**.
  J'ai remporté l'**élection**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#5859338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5859338) [\#6480559](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6480559))

- “It was only a meeting assembled for an **election**.”
  --Il s'agissait simplement d'un meeting organisé pour une **élection**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2136)

- Even so too at this present time also there is a remnant according to the **election** of grace.
  De même aussi dans le temps présent il y a un reste, selon l’**élection** de la grâce.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 11:5)

- We have an **election** in the UK on 5 May.
  Des **élections** ont lieu le 5 mai au Royaume-Uni.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 663602)

- **Election** of Vice-Presidents
  **Élection** des vice-présidents
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4878506)

## électorale

Used about 4 701 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 171 · legal and administrative ≈ 432 · UN documents ≈ 3 097).

- He fought a successful **election** campaign.
  Il a fait une campagne **électorale** réussie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#300706](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/300706) [\#1184596](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1184596))

- As we entered Bosnia we saw a huge **election** poster for President Tudjman of Croatia.
  Comme nous entrions en Bosnie nous avons aperçu une énorme affiche **électorale** du président Tudjman de Croatie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1601482)

- **ELECTION** OBSERVATION MISSIONS (EU EOMS)
  MISSIONS D’OBSERVATION **ÉLECTORALE**
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3779100)

- The principle of equal airtime of the media, especially during periods of **elections**
  Le principe de l &apos; égalité des temps d &apos; antenne, en particulier en période **électorale**;
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 20448695)

- What the European Union **Election** Observation Mission saw was, as Parliament will know, disappointing.
  Ce que la mission d'observation **électorale** de l'Union européenne a vu, le Parlement le sait, est décevant.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 466246)

## président

Used about 4 674 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 29 · UN documents ≈ 4 646).

- His ‘**election**’ was decreed unconstitutional by the acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov on 1 March 2014.
  Cette 愦灭;quot;élection愦灭;quot; a été décrétée inconstitutionnelle le 1er mars 2014 par le **président** ukrainien par intérim Oleksandr TURCHYNOV.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5158859)

- 1979 Chairman, **Election** Tribunal II, Kwara State, Nigeria.
  1979 **Président** du Tribunal électoral II, État du Kwara (Nigéria)
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 3292006)

- The Committee noted the re-**election** of Mr. Koester as its Chairperson and Ms. Svitlana Kravchenko as Vice-Chairperson.
  5. Il a pris acte de la réélection de M. Koester en tant que **Président** et de Mme Svitlana Kravchenko en tant que Vice-Présidente.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 19061978)

- At the 2013 plenary session, therefore, **elections** for a Chair and for Vice-Chairs will be held for the two-year period from June 2013 to June 2015.
  À cette occasion, la Conférence devra donc élire un **président** et des viceprésidents pour un mandat de deux ans, allant de juin 2013 à juin 2015.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 27997116)

## membres

Used about 1 549 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 549).

- The officers of the Committee shall be elected for a term of two years and be eligible for re-**election** provided that the principle of rotation is upheld.
  Les **membres** du Bureau du Comité sont élus pour une période de deux ans et sont rééligibles, pourvu que le principe du roulement dans la composition du Bureau soit respecté.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9409768)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- His re-**election** seems certain.
  Sa réélection semble certaine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Paiooooo · checked, community translation · [\#283659](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/283659) [\#684526](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/684526))

- This is a tight **election**.
  C'est un scrutin serré.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8558504](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8558504) [\#9120289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9120289))

- The **election** results were extremely close.
  Les résultats du vote étaient très serrés.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#807456](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/807456) [\#1811043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1811043))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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