The phrase "a separate election" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an election that is distinct from others, often in the context of discussing different voting events or processes.
Example: "The committee decided to hold a separate election for the new board members to ensure transparency."
Alternatives: "an independent election" or "a distinct election".
Advocates of the reform are suggesting the party first elect a leader and then hold a separate election for a deputy with a requirement that the the person selected cannot be the same gender as the leader.
In a separate election in the small northern region of Asturias, the PP was placed a poor third.
A separate election must be made with respect to insurance proceeds attributable to each crop which represents a separate trade or business under section 446 d).
Mr. Stack has proposed himself as a candidate for mayor in a separate election that would be on the same ballot as the recall vote.
It's not a presidential system, so there isn't a separate election to choose the leader; who becomes prime minister is decided by the party that forms government.
In a regular runoff, the voter votes in a separate election into which his or her first-choice candidate may or may not have made it.
In addition to supporting the new chairman, Fazel Ahmed Manawi, a former Supreme Court justice, the United Nations also endorsed a plan that would weaken a separate election-fraud monitoring body but would give Western representatives veto power over its decisions and would avert Mr. Karzai's attempt to take it over completely.
In June, he decided to hold a separate special election on October 16th for the Senate seat vacated by the death of Frank Lautenberg, rather than simply tacking that election onto the governors' election on November 5th.
The only reason to have a separate Senate election is to make certain that no well-known Democrat — very likely Mayor Cory Booker of Newark — will be on the November ballot, possibly luring to the polls more Democrats and minorities, who might also vote for Mr. Christie's lesser known Democratic opponent, Barbara Buono, a state senator from Middlesex County.
Labour's candidate for London mayor, Ken Livingstone, has been campaigning with a non-Labour candidate in a separate local election in the East End, in breach of his party's rules.
Just 12percentt of voters said Christie was right to set a separate special election, while 78percentt said it should have been scheduled for Nov. 5.
