public election

process by which a population chooses the holder of a public office
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public election

Summary

public election is a process[1]. It ranks in the top 0.82% of process entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,020 views/month, #2 of 244).[2]

Key Facts

  • public election's instance of is recorded as process[3].
  • public election is a type of voting[4].
  • public election is a type of competition[5].
  • public election is part of politics[6].
  • public election is part of organization[7].
  • public election is part of association[8].
  • public election's Commons category is recorded as Elections[9].
  • public election is the opposite of recall election[10].
  • public election's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Elections[11].
  • public election's Commons gallery is recorded as Election[12].
  • public election's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[13].
  • public election's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • public election's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[15].
  • public election's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16].
  • public election's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[17].
  • public election's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • public election's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[19].
  • public election's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox election[20].
  • public election's topic has template is recorded as Template:Elections[21].
  • public election's has characteristic is recorded as class of election[22].
  • public election's main Wikidata property is recorded as P5892[23].
  • public election's main Wikidata property is recorded as P6672[24].
  • public election's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Election[25].
  • public election's different from is recorded as corporate election[26].
  • public election's properties for this type is recorded as P991[27].

Body

Definition and Type

public election's instance of is recorded as process[3]. Recorded subclass of include voting[4] and competition[5]. It is the opposite of recall election[10].

Use and Application

Part of include politics[6], an academic discipline[28]; organization[7], a social science concept[29]; and association[8], a legal form[30].

Influence

Things named for public election include Love, Election and Chocolate[31], a video game[32].

Why It Matters

public election ranks in the top 0.82% of process entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,020 views/month, #2 of 244).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Entities named for it include Love, Election and Chocolate[31], a video game[32].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Wikidata. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopædia britannica online id topic/election-political-science/Voting-practices
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1417]]: topic/election-political-science/Voting-practices"
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