popular election

基本解释

We hold a popular election every four years.
我们每四年举行一次大选。
There was a long, muddled, pledge that appeared to honour the request by setting a timetable for a direct popular election for the territory's “chief executive”.
一个长长的、令人困惑的、似乎是对请求表示尊重的设立一个直接普选特区“行政首长”时间表的承诺。
Yeltsin resigned from the Communist Party in 1990 and became Russia's first democratically elected president in the popular election in 1991.
叶利钦在1990年退出苏共并在1991年全民选举中当选为俄罗斯第一任民选总统。
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The other provided for direct, popular election of senators.
On election day, the legislative candidates supporting Lincoln won four thousand more popular votes than the candidates supporting Douglas.
Abraham Lincoln did not receive a majority of the popular vote in the eighteen sixty election.

But he will owe this less to what he is allowed to do than to the fact of his popular election.
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