popular election

基本解釋

We hold a popular election every four years.
我們每四年舉行一次大選。
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”.
一個(gè)長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的、令人困惑的、似乎是對(duì)請(qǐng)求表示尊重的設(shè)立一個(gè)直接普選特區(qū)“行政首長(zhǎng)”時(shí)間表的承諾。
Yeltsin resigned from the Communist Party in 1990 and became Russia's first democratically elected president in the popular election in 1991.
葉利欽在1990年退出蘇共并在1991年全民選舉中當(dāng)選為俄羅斯第一任民選總統(tǒng)。
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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.
ECONOMIST: Mayor Ken