general election

1. 1.

   a national or state election; candidates are chosen in all constituencies

   Broaderelection

Questions about general election

What does general election mean?

general election means "a national or state election; candidates are chosen in all constituencies".

Is general election a common word?

general election is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.