Sentence examples for elected from high-quality English sources.

• He was re-elected to the House five times.

• All military officers are also elected by vote.

• So was Facebook responsible for Donald Trump getting elected?

• Elected MPs represent their respective interests far more than they represent the people who elected them.

• But in some monarchies local officials were elected.

• Notes: Chart includes people elected by only popular vote.

• Faleomavaega was elected to that office in 1988 and repeatedly won reelection.

• Each district is administered by an elected chairperson and a district council.

Use elected in a sentence.

• A good politician gets elected, whatever it takes to get elected.

• The departments are headed by elected governors, and each has an elected legislature.

• The organization is headed by a president who is elected to a one-year term by the board of directors.

• In 1989 the newly elected Congress of People’s Deputies elected from its ranks a new U.S.S.R.

• She has been in the role since January 2019, when Democrats elected her after regaining majority control of the House.

• Members of the House of Councillors are elected to six-year terms, with half the members being elected every three years.

• The first female Fellows were elected in 1945 – Dorothy Hodgkin, elected in 1947, remains Britain’s only female Nobel Prize-winning scientist.

• Senegal has a unicameral legislature (the National Assembly), with most members directly elected; the remaining members are indirectly elected.

elected sentence examples

• The bicameral legislature meets in odd-numbered years for 90-day sessions and is composed of 50 senators elected to four-year terms and 100 representatives elected to two-year terms.

• The House members are elected by districts corresponding to the departments, while 100 of the 102 members of the Senate are elected by a nationwide constituency and two by the indigenous communities.

• In 1964 a Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly) approved a new constitution, under which the House of the People was to have 216 elected members and the House of the Elders was to have 84 members, one-third elected by the people, one-third appointed by the king, and one-third elected indirectly by new provincial assemblies.

• Of the magistrates elected by lot, in former times some including the nine Archons, were elected out of the tribe as a whole, while others, namely those who are now elected in the Theseum, were apportioned among the demes; but since the demes used to sell the elections, these magistrates too are now elected from the whole tribe, except the members of the Council and the guards of the dockyards, who are still left to the demes.