Difference between voting and election

Posted By: Sm Adminon: November 09, 2015In: Miscellaneous

Voting:
A vote is a formal expression of an individual’s choice against ballot question for a selection of candidate or a political party. Democracies elect holders of high office by voting. In a democracy, a government is chosen by voting in an election.
Election:
An election is a formal decision making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century.
Differences:

Basis	Voting	Election
Definition (www.oxforddictionaries.com)	A formal indication of a choice between two or more candidates or courses of action, expressed typically through a ballot or a show of hands.	A formal and organized choice by vote of a person for a political office or other position.
Objectives/Purpose	The purposes of voting are: Abolishing the state Reducing the state powers The cost of voting from a libertarian perspective	The purposes of elections are: An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. The universal use of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens. Where universal suffrage exists, the right to vote is not restricted by gender, race, social status, or wealth. Citizens become eligible to vote after reaching the voting age, which is typically eighteen years old. Most democracies no longer extend different rights to vote on the basis of sex or race. Compulsory voting is a system in which electors are obliged to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day.
Synonyms	Deciding, vote, balloting, polling, vote	Decision, option, choice, selection, primary
Antonyms	Tabling, abstaining	Essential, inferior, necessity, requirement, obligation and imperative
Types	The types of voting are: Plurality/ majority systems Proportional representation systems Semi proportional systems	The types of elections are: Primary General Special
History	Voting has been used as a feature of democracy since the 6th century BC, when democracy was introduced by the Athenian democracy. However, in Athenian democracy, voting was seen as the least democratic among methods used for selecting public officials, and was little used, because elections were believed to inherently favor the wealthy and well-known over average citizens.	Elections were used as early in history as ancient Greece and ancient Rome and throughout the Medieval period to select rulers such as the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope.
Word origin	It was originated from Late Middle English: from Latin votum ‘a vow, wish’, from vovere ‘to vow’. The verb dates from the mid16th century	It was originated from Middle English: via Old French from Latin electio(n-), from eligere ‘pick out’.
Pronunciation	Eng (UK): /vəʊt/ /ɪŋ/ Eng (US): /vōt/ /iNG/	Eng (UK): /ɪˈlɛkʃ(ə)n/ Eng (US): /əˈlekSH(ə)n/
Advantages/Benefits	Its advantages are: It’s the most effective way for the general population to communicate and provide feedback to the political powers-that-be. Voting is beneficial to mental health and well-being as well. Voting allows the voter to feel that sense of control and power over his future. Voter participation is a learned activity.	Its advantages are: People get to choose representatives. It involves a certain degree of responsibility. It represents citizens equally. It aligns with democratic principles. It encourages voter turnout.
Disadvantages	Its disadvantages are: Wrong candidate may win. The choice might not be the best.	Its disadvantages are: A lot of money is spent on conducting elections and an enormous amount is spent by the participants for campaigning. The elections cause uncertainty in the ruling class. Each party has a slightly different way of interpreting rules, which causes a little confusion among stakeholders in the way they have to deal with government. There is also an apparent problem of taking populist measures before elections even though such actions eventually hurt the economy or social structure of the country.
Example in Sentence	The employee doesn’t have the voting power. The citizens are not satisfied with the method of voting.	The election is in next week. He is also standing for an election.