to select (somebody) by vote for an office, position, or membership
the never-ending audacity of elected persons — Walt Whitman
He was elected president in 1981
said of God: to choose or predestine (somebody) to receive salvation
chiefly NAmer to select (e.g. a course of study)
formal to choose or decide to do something
electable adj
[Latin electus choice, past part. of eligere to select, from ex-1 + legere to choose]