to fill an elective office заполнятьвыборнуюдолжность:There are approximately one million elective offices to be filled.

16. 
    electoral [only before noun] relating to elections and voting избирательный, выборный:Reports of the electoral death of the Conservatives were exaggerated.
    

electoral district избирательныйокруг:Yeltsin won majorities in more than 80 of the 88 electoral districts.

electoral law:The opposition parties criticized different aspects of the electoral law.

electoral reform:The government are promising electoral reform within five years.

electoral system:Electoral systems vary from country to country. | Our electoral system strongly favours two-party government. | He became president in 1999 under a new electoral system.

electoral register / roll / list список / реестризбирателей: to draw up an electoral register / roll / list | The electoral register is compiled annually and comes into force on 15 February following the qualifying date of 10 October. | Is this one of the reasons why one million people are missing off the electoral register? | They cannot have their names on the electoral roll and, as a result, cannot vote.

electoral victory / success:After his electoral victory, Smith was appointed environment minister. | This was the first of her many electoral successes.

electoral defeat:It was the party's fourth electoral defeat.

electoral mandate наказизбирателей

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    elector [countable] someone who has the right to vote in a political election избиратель; лицо, имеющееправоголоса:Elections limit Parliament because they give power to electors who ignorantly demand ever more state intervention. | Over 36% of electors did not vote at all.
    
18. 
    voter [countable] someone who has the right to vote in a political election, or who votes in a particular election избиратель; лицо, имеющееправоголоса; участникголосования, голосующий: Voters overwhelmingly rejected the far right in the May elections. | Only 40% of eligible voters participated in the last election. | Voters went to the polls today to elect a new president.
    

voter apathy a situation in which a lot of people who have the right to vote do not vote: Voter apathy is especially high among young people.

19. 
    constituent [countable] a person who lives, and can vote in a particular area избиратель:She has the full support of her constituents.
    
20. 
    electorate [countable; usually singular] all the people in a country or area who have the right to vote электорат, избиратели, контингентизбирателей, избирательныйкорпус:The present voting system distorts the wishes of the electorate. | A majority of the electorate oppose the law. | Research has shown that thirty percent of the electorate have still not decided how they will vote.
    
21. 
    bid | run (AmE) [countable; usually singular] an attempt to achieve or obtain something; an attempt to win an election попытка, стремление; попыткапобедитьнавыборах:Her bid for re-election was unsuccessful. | Lavell has not ruled out a run for the state senate seat.
    

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to make / mount a bid for sth предприниматьпопыткудостичьчего-л.:The party now feels the time is right to make a bid for power. | Do you think he'd be willing to mount another bid for the presidency?

to make a run for sth | to prepare a / one's run for sth предприниматьпопыткудостичьчего-л.: He made an unsuccessful run for governor in 2008. | He is preparing a / his run for the presidency.

22. 
    ticket [usually singular] (1) (esp. AmE) slate (AmE) | party('s) list a list of the people supported by a particular political party in an election (партийный) списоккандидатов (навыборах), избирательный (партийный) список:to split a ticket | He withdrew his name from the Democratic ticket. | The leadership want to present a single slate of candidates to be approved in an open vote. | At a congress of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, he graciously agreed to head its party list at the general election in December.
    

on a particular ticket / ballot откакой-л. партии, поспискукакой-л. партии:Bush ran for president on the Republican ticket. | He was running against his opponents on an independent ticket. | He plans to remain on the Republican ticket for the November election. | After serving as secretary of commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge, H. Hoover was elected to the presidency on the Republican ballot.

(2) (BrE) the ideas that a political party supports in an election платформаполитическойпартии (скоторойонавыступаетнапарламентскихвыборах):Hefoughttheelectiononanopenlyracistticket. | He first ran for president on a far-left ticket. | It's a ticket that was designed to appeal to suburban and small town voters.

23. 
    platform [countable] the main ideas and aims of a political party, especially the ones that they state just before an election политическаяплатформа, позиция: a political / party / election / electoral platform | the Labour Party platform | a strong women's rights platform | the promises in their election platform | They are campaigning on an anti-immigration platform. | The Socialist Party won a landslide victory on a nationalist platform. | They fought the election on a platform of economic reform / low taxes. | The party has announced a platform of political and economic reforms as it campaigns for the country's first multiparty elections next month.
    
24. 
    suffrage [uncountable] | franchise [singular; uncountable] the legal right to vote in national elections правоголоса, избирательноеправо, правоучаствоватьввыборах; голосование:Popular suffrage meant that rival factions would shout for their own candidate. | The franchise is made uniform throughout the country.
    

to give / grant / provide / introduce suffrage / (the) franchise

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предоставитьправоголоса, наделитьизбирательнымправом, вводитьизбирательноеправо:Women are given the franchise on the same basis as men. | The constitution provided broad electoral franchise.

to extend suffrage / (the) franchise to sb распространитьдействиеизбирательногоправанакого-н.:The franchise was later extended to any person over 18 years old.

to win the franchise (for sb) завоеватьизбирательноеправо, добитьсяизбирательногоправа: In 1918 the suffragists won the franchise for UK women over the age of 29.

to exercise one's franchise пользоваться правом голоса

direct suffrage / franchise прямое избирательное право

equal suffrage / franchise равное избирательное право

universal suffrage / franchise всеобщееизбирательноеправо:theprinciple / introductionofuniversalsuffrage / franchise | Allelectionsarebyuniversaladultsuffrage. | The President would be elected on the basis of / by universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot for a five-year term. | It was also the year of the first presidential election held under universal suffrage.

female / women's suffrage избирательноеправодляженщин:She was a strong advocate of women's suffrage.

25. 
    term (in / of office) [countable] a fixed period of time during which a politician or other official holds their job; a period of time between two elections during which a particular party or government is in power срокполномочий / пребываниявдолжности:He hopes to visit China during his second term in office. | Throughout his first term in office there was a series of battles between his political appointees and career bureaucrats. | It was always clear that Schmidt's third term in office would prove a difficult one.
    

term (in / of office) as president / vice president / governor / mayor / chairman / member of parliament: He recently completed a two-year term as chairman.

to elect / re-elect sb for / to a term (of / in office) избиратьнакакой-л. срок:The president hopes to be elected for a second term in office. | General Herrera was elected to a third term of office as President.

to win a term (of / in office) бытьизбраннымнакакой-л. срок:Felipe Gonzalez won a fourth term of office in Spain's election.

to serve (for) a term (of / in office) заниматьвыборнуюдолжность:Only Ronald Reagan has served two full terms. | But he promised to serve for only one term, and refuses to go back on his word.

a term (of / in office) ends / expires / runs out срокполномочийистекает:Her term of office ends in September. | The Government's term of office expires at the end of the year.

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26. 
    presidency [countable] (1) the job of being president президентство; председательство:the race for the presidency | Mr Clinton began his presidency wanting to do it all. | Overall, the presidency of Gerald Ford was not a success.
    

to run for / stand for / seek the presidency участвовать в выборах на пост президента / в президентских выборах, выставлять / выдвигать / предлагать свою кандидатуру на пост президента; претендовать на / бороться за пост президента:Hehasannouncedthatheisrunningforthepresidency. | Twenty candidates have said they will stand for the presidency. | After winning the election, Clinton instead sought the presidency.

to elect sb to the presidency выбиратького-л. президентом:Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the US.

to win / take the presidency бытьизбраннымпрезидентом, статьпрезидентом:She won the presidency by a wide margin. | No Republican has won the presidency without winning Ohio.

to assume the presidency вступатьвдолжностьпрезидента:He also predicted that even if Aristide won he would not be permitted to assume the presidency.

to lose the presidency (to sb) лишитьсядолжностипрезидента; уступитьпостпрезидентакому-л.:The former Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, has appeared on television for the first time since he lost the presidency.

to resign the / one's presidency подаватьвотставкуспостапрезидента:He resigned his presidency one year and seven months into his second term.

(2) the period of time for which a person is president срокполномочийпрезидента, президентскийсрок:She has promised improvements during her presidency. | During his presidency he undertook a great initiative towards world peace. | That was the policy during the Reagan and Bush presidencies. | But the picture he paints of foreign policy-making under the Reagan presidency is disquieting. | Truman's popularity fell to the lowest point of his presidency.

27. 
    seat [countable] a position as an elected member of a parliament, committee, council, board, court etc должность, место, пост (ввыборныхорганах):the Senate seat for Colorado
    

seat in a parliament:a seat in the National Assembly | The Green Party won 4 seats in the new parliament.

seat on a board / committee / council:a permanent seat on the UN Security Council | Independent candidates won the majority of seats on the local council. | Promotion means a seat on the board of directors.

to hold / have // keep / retain a seat иметь // сохранятьместо:

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Republicans, at the moment, hold 41 seats while Democrats have 37. | Mr Adams is expected to keep his seat.

to win / gain / secure a seat завоевать / получитьместо: Tories won 419 seats in the last elections. | In this second round the candidate with most votes would win the constituency seat provided that participation was above 25 percent. | He predicts that his party will gain at least 12 seats.

to fill a seat заполнитьместо:The Senate seats were all filled by completely free balloting.

to lose a seat потерятьместо:He is expected to lose his seat on the council in next month's elections.

to fight / contest a seat боротьсязаместо:He subsequently fought and held his parliamentary seat against his former party. | He unsuccessfully contested parliamentary seats in 1929 and 1931.

28. 
    constituency [countable] (1) (BrE) an area of a country that elects a representative to a parliament, or the people who live and vote in a particular area избирательныйокруг:a rural / urban constituency | constituency boundaries | It is time that he visited his constituency and had a look around. | The Minister will be pleased to know that unemployment in my constituency fell by 41 last month.
    

(2) a section of society that supports or is likely to support a politician or a political party избиратели, электорат:Students have never been the constituency of any single party. | Mr Jackson had a natural constituency among American blacks. | In France, farmers are a powerful political constituency.

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