The phrase "accepted electoral" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing recognized or validated electoral processes, results, or systems.
Example: "The committee reviewed the accepted electoral results before announcing the winner."
Alternatives: "recognized electoral" or "validated electoral".
Ten days ago Yahya Jammeh, authoritarian ruler of the Gambia, accepted electoral defeat.
Xenophobia has once more become a widely accepted electoral tool: consider the loud and deceitful warnings of leading Brexit campaigners that Britain would soon be swamped by millions of Turkish migrants if the UK remained inside the EU.
It therefore, lacks credibility based on internationally accepted electoral criteria.
Yet, despite his protestations, it seemed he would rather die than accept electoral defeat.
*Congress, designated by the Constitution as the final judge of whether to accept electoral votes or not.
The rapid rise and fall of governments in recent years, followed by protests and violence, has demonstrated that neither side is prepared to accept electoral defeat.
Mr. Kostunica has ruled out a second round, saying that to take part would be to accept electoral fraud and betray the votes of the people.
But the underlying causes of political deadlock are not: they lie in the persistent refusal of Thailand's elites to accept electoral defeat at the hands of Thaksin Shinawatra, a deeply flawed but nonetheless popular prime minister.
Later he compared Mr Jonathan to Laurent Gbagbo, the ex-president of Ivory Coast, whose refusal to accept electoral defeat sparked civil war in 2010.Although Mr Obasanjo's influence had been waning, his departure is still a blow to the PDP.
But in other ways they differ greatly.Mr López Obrador's refusal to accept electoral defeat, and his branding of Mr Calderón as "illegitimate", has divided and discredited his party.
Yet, whatever the outcome of the struggle to force him to accept electoral defeat, one thing was clear: the logic of Mr. Milosevic's hold on the people of Serbia had been shattered.
