The phrase "an election speech" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a speech given by a candidate or political figure during an election campaign.
Example: "The candidate delivered an election speech that focused on healthcare reform and economic growth."
Alternatives: "a campaign speech" or "a political address".
President elect Obama alluded to this 'hope as counterterrorism' strategy during an election speech in which he outlined his foreign policy platform at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
See articleFor the first time, Myanmar's state television and radio broadcast an election speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the country's democracy movement.
The microblogging site was blocked on Friday, only hours after Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, vowed to "eradicate" Twitter in an election speech.
There was still rationing: eggs, tea, sugar, soap, coal, meat – "an eightpenny ration of gristle", grumbled an unknown voice – and an election speech by Winston Churchill set the tone: "We are having a hard time.
And in Middlemarch, set in the 1830s, George Eliot was familiar enough with the practice to subject Mr Brooke to the humiliating fate of a substantial egging during an election speech: "Here an unpleasant egg broke on Mr Brooke's shoulder… then came a hail of eggs, chiefly aimed at the image, but occasionally hitting the original, as if by chance".
During an election speech, he disparaged the Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein Friedrich-Wilhelm Lübke.
Abbott's latest covert intervention came in the form of a coodabeen election speech, a remix of the kind of fact-free slogans that worked for him in opposition but failed so spectacularly as a basis for running the country.
The jokes stopped two days later when Sarkozy, in a major election speech, proposed a change to the law to impose transparency on the way animals were killed, a U-turn on his earlier comment that this was not an issue.
Many of them show her in the midst of an impassioned election speech, like the one she gave the day of her assassination.
At a keynote election speech last week, his handlers even showcased a shimmying girl band singing an ode to that heartthrob in the Kremlin: "I want a man like Putin, full of strength!" Thousands of candidates are vying on Sunday for seats in the next Parliament, but the election is really about only one politician, President Vladimir V. Putin.
Blair chose the white cliffs of Dover for a 2005 election speech on refugees and immigration – when it was time for the photo call, there wasn't a black face to be seen.
