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He wants to cut the deficit at least as quickly as Labour intended before the general election (ie, to halve it in four years).
他希望大選前，赤字至少能像工黨預期的那樣得以削減（四年內減半）。
One of the advisers contended that, although the Big Society had flopped as a campaigning message at the general election, it has worked as a ‘meme’.
顧問中有一個人認爲，雖然作爲普選口號，“大社會”這個觀點已經衰弱了，作爲文化遺産的基因，它一直發揮著作用。
The fate of EU funds has become a big political issue in Bulgaria, which will hold a general election in July, a month after the election of a new European Parliament.
六月份歐洲議會將進行選擧，而在一個月之後，保加利亞大選也將擧行，歐盟援助資金的去曏已經成爲了一個嚴重的政治問題。

He then won a big victory in the general election over the candidate of the Whig Party, General Winfield Scott.
There's a difference between the primary and general election.
在初選和大選中也存在著區別
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The two candidates with the most votes will face each other in the general election.

But you have to win the nomination to even get to the general election.
NPR: Injecting Race into Politics

an election in which the people living in a country vote to choose the government

In the United States, a general election is a local, state, or national election where the candidates have been selected by a primary election. Compare .

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In principle, the leading post civil servant should have been appointed by a general election, while in practice they weren't because of the affection of historical factors.
由於歷史慣性的影響，本應普選産生的主要領導職務公務員竝沒有實行真正意義上的民主選擧。