The phrase "a consequence of the election" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the outcomes or effects that result from an election event.
Example: "The new policies implemented by the government were a direct consequence of the election results."
Alternatives: "an outcome of the election" or "a result of the election".
A consequence of the Trump election is a growing bipartisan concern over the abject incompetence of an administration that poses a real and present danger not only to the country but to the world.
Mr. Scott entered the job with low approval ratings, a consequence of the nasty 2010 election; they did not drop suddenly, Mr. Fabrizio said.
Mr. Gimenez also will face re-election in August 2012, a consequence of the fact that the former mayor was removed from office in a recall election in March.
"Most decisive elections are a consequence of the public rejecting something," he said.
But the severity of the problem may be a consequence of the firehosing successfully employed in the 2016 elections by the Trump campaign.
This sheds light on a significant consequence of the election that has been largely neglected in its aftermath: how the severe defeat suffered by Saeed Jalili – the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and Iran's top nuclear negotiator – effectively marginalised the radical conservatives who supported him, the same group that had been most vocal in its devotion to the supreme leader.
Both chambers have fewer of the centrist Republicans that typically cut deals, a consequence of Democrats' election gains in 2006 and 2008.
As Guardian Australia's deputy political editor Katharine Murphy wrote, the fact the government began its bid for re-election not with a big interview or flashy policy launch, but by selling the budget was a consequence of calling an election so soon after it was handed down.
You'll find plenty of people in Scotland who believe that Salmond's campaign – which he was thrown into rather earlier than he might have wished, as a consequence of his 2011 election victory – has produced a movement that goes far beyond the confines of the SNP and will be difficult for that party itself to control.
