NOUN (4)

1. a vote to select the winner of a position or political office;
- Example: "the results of the election will be announced tonight"

2. the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice;
- Example: "her election of medicine as a profession"

3. the status or fact of being elected;
- Example: "they celebrated his election"

4. the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists);

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Election \E*lec"tion\, n. [F. ['e]lection, L. electio, fr.
   eligere to choose out. See Elect, a.]
   1. The act of choosing; choice; selection.
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   2. The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to
      membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or
      viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.
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            Corruption in elections is the great enemy of
            freedom.                              --J. Adams.
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   3. Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
      "By his own election led to ill." --Daniel.
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   4. Discriminating choice; discernment. [Obs.]
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            To use men with much difference and election is
            good.                                 --Bacon.
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   5. (Theol.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as
      objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five
      points" of Calvinism.
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            There is a remnant according to the election of
            grace.                                --Rom. xi. 5.
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   6. (Law) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by
      taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the
      other.
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   7. Those who are elected. [Obs.]
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            The election hath obtained it.        --Rom. xi. 7.
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   To contest an election. See under Contest.

   To make one's election, to choose.
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            He has made his election to walk, in the main, in
            the old paths.                        --Fitzed.
                                                  Hall.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

election
    n 1: a vote to select the winner of a position or political
         office; "the results of the election will be announced
         tonight"
    2: the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of
       deliberate choice; "her election of medicine as a profession"
    3: the status or fact of being elected; "they celebrated his
       election"
    4: the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine
       mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)