The phrase "a proper election" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the legitimacy, fairness, or appropriateness of an electoral process.
Example: "In order to ensure democracy, it is essential that we conduct a proper election that reflects the will of the people."
Alternatives: "a legitimate election" or "an appropriate election".
Jean-Marie Doré will supposedly hold power until a proper election within six months.
"I have to have trust and faith to ensure this is a proper election process.
A proper election would have helped both candidates to clarify their respective political positions.
Time up for Mr Riyale, perhaps.Like a proper election anywhere, the candidates avoid specifics, devoting their time to attacking one another.
Rather than give civilian legitimacy to a military government, the arrangement will taint Pakistan's largest secular party.Perhaps a proper election can still be salvaged from this mess.
This year we had a proper election, and one which went on for most of April as they tried to work out if anyone had won.
We're not talking about some tiny island nation kicking the tires on democracy for the first time after a revolution; this is an increasingly likely obstruction of a free and proper election inside the country that wrote the book on democratic elections.
Balls' statement came at the end of a bruising first day of proper election campaigning, a day that started with a speech by Labour leader Ed Miliband promising "hope, not falsehood" and which descended into a battle between the two main parties amid accusations of lies and dirty tricks.
Efforts by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and others to help foster NGOs, a lively press and proper election rules in the swathe of countries from Belarus to Central Asia are, Mr Putin would have us believe, the illegitimate machinations of hostile powers.
Nepal witnessed an embarrassing example of this in April, when India had its paw-prints all over the country's first proper election in a decade.
These non-permanent or "elected" members, as they prefer inaccurately to name themselves (since most of them are elected by rote not by proper election), are, with rare exceptions, mere witnesses to the real power in this diplomatic show.
