direct election

election in which people vote directly for the person that they want elected to a political position
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direct election

Summary

direct election is an electoral system[1]. It draws 358 Wikipedia views per month (electoral_system category, ranking #4 of 32).[2]

Key Facts

  • direct election's instance of is recorded as electoral system[3].
  • direct election's GND ID is recorded as 4485590-4[4].
  • direct election's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2006004948[5].
  • direct election's subclass of is recorded as public election[6].
  • direct election's opposite of is recorded as indirect election[7].
  • direct election's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02_ss7[8].
  • direct election's different from is recorded as direct election (Lower Saxony)[9].
  • direct election's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as direkte_valg[10].
  • direct election's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiForHumanRights 2019[11].
  • direct election's National Library of Korea ID is recorded as KSH1998036940[12].
  • direct election's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776914638[13].
  • direct election's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007566548705171[14].
  • direct election's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 직접 선거[15].
  • direct election's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 246526[16].
  • direct election's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 136166[17].
  • direct election's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/c578ca46-725c-4def-93c4-42fd6c22f87a[18].

Why It Matters

direct election draws 358 Wikipedia views per month (electoral_system category, ranking #4 of 32).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_direct-election_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{direct election}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/direct-election}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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