The phrase "a vicious election" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an election characterized by hostility, aggression, or unfair tactics.
Example: "The campaign was marked by a vicious election, with candidates resorting to personal attacks and misinformation."
Alternatives: "a brutal election" or "a hostile election".
It seems particularly appropriate that I'm doing this in the middle of a vicious election battle between two very different visions of America.
"The mayor has nowhere to hide," says John Biggs, the area's London assembly member who Rahman narrowly defeated after a vicious election campaign in May.
When asked there was any silver lining in such a vicious election cycle, Costello pointed to two upsides: "One thing is that young people are really engaged," she said.
A turning point appears to have been the vicious election campaign of Conservative candidate Sir William Evans-Gordon in 1900, when, in white working-class Stepney, he railed against "foreign invaders", whipped up hatred against the Jewish community, and, for the first time in history, made immigration a national issue.
Your cousin, Mike Dukakis, was famously subjected to one of the most vicious election campaigns in 1988 (5).
"The 2016 presidential election, assuming both Clinton and Trump are the nominees, may well be the ugliest and most vicious election many of us will have ever seen.
But the fact is that there were some pretty vicious elections; they say this was, this was the most.
Today, November 9, 2016, we turn our backs on the most divisive and vicious elections in American history.
Instead, the report is landing just as the country is gearing up for what promises to be a vicious and combative election year.
Between August and November, a vicious crackdown on election-related opposition protests had left more than 50 dead and dozens of rapes reported.
How does a vicious, close and disputed election spill over into a presidency?
