Converse of object

• win: I'm sure we'll win the next election now!

• contest: But if Respect does contest the election and performs worse than 2.4 % then this will be a very sobering reality check.

Adjective modifier

• presidential: The Lancet study was released in the run-up to the November 2004 presidential election.

• parliamentary: The next European Parliamentary Elections are due in 2009.

• general: We have started to work toward victory in the next general election.

• forthcoming: The parties agreed to meet again following the forthcoming general election.

• European: The next European Parliamentary Elections are due in 2009.

• next: I'm sure we'll win the next election now!

Modifies a noun

• manifesto: At a certain stage we have to accept that the debates about the next election manifesto are over.

• campaign: Tony Blair's slogan during the election campaign was " the work goes on " .

• victory: Hamas made sweeping gains in these elections last year which prepared the way for its election victory last week.

• turnout: The effect was the lowest election turnout of my political life.

• result: In the end, of course, the timing will depend on the election result ⦠.

Preposition: by

• landslide: Labor, the party of the working classes, won the 1945 election by a landslide; its first truly significant victory.

Noun used with modifier

• mid-term: But did nothing about the story, which could seriously affect the upcoming mid-term elections and cost the Republicans control of Congress.

• landslide: We have just suffered our second successive landslide election defeat.

• council: Merton Council Elections - Questionnaire 2006 Merton's council elections take place this coming Thursday, 4th May.

• assembly: Single transferable vote STV is used in the Republic of Ireland and for local and assembly elections in Northern Ireland.

• leadership: Interesting day on the Beeb with only a couple of weeks to go to polling in the Lib Dems leadership election.