Talk:General election

Unclear sentence

"...independent action by the lower house than the House of Lords..." in the "American Usage" section.

1) What on Earth does this sentence mean? It doesn't seem to make sense. 2) Why does it mention the House of Lords, as opposed to anything that exists in the United States?

Any ideas? Leushenko (talk) 11:09, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

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"Independent" not mentioned under 'United States' section

Just for consideration: should not a a brief reference to "Independent" voters being eligible to vote in 'General' elections appear somewhere under (at least) the 'United States' section? Yes, perhaps this falls under a wiki voter page, but I believe it would be helpful to have a link here. Thank you.75.88.137.76 (talk) 14:13, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Self-contradictory

The lead sentence of the article (which is unsourced and unsupported elsewhere) claims that a general election is an "electoral process to choose most or all members of an elected body, typically a legislature," making it seem like this definition must be satisfied for an election to be considered general. Yet, just a few sentences down, the lead says the US has a "slightly different" meaning of a general election, saying it is "the ordinary electoral competition following the selection of candidates in the primary election," which clearly is not always an election for most or all members of an elected body. Gödel2200 (talk) 21:57, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

I will also note that just two sentences after the lead sentence, the article reads: "In most systems, a general election is a regularly scheduled election..." which seems to say that the definition only applies for "most systems," whereas the first definition presents itself as a universal one. Gödel2200 (talk) 22:14, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Absolutely. The first sentence describes a parliamentary election. --95.24.65.15 (talk) 21:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)