The phrase "attempt to elect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts or actions taken to choose or select someone for a position or role, typically in a political or organizational context.
Example: "The committee will make an attempt to elect a new chairperson during the upcoming meeting."
Alternatives: "effort to choose" or "try to select".
Saturday's elections were the third attempt to elect a president this year.
Therefore, the next step is necessarily the attempt to elect a chancellor in the Bundestag.
He has been accused of "inciting hatred against the regime .The parliament in Greece failed in its third attempt to elect a president.
Low voter turnout today invalidated Serbia's third attempt to elect a president since September, deepening political uncertainty in Yugoslavia's major republic.
They are holed up at an LA airport hotel and will hold the vote there, nearly two months after a first attempt to elect a chairman for the next four years failed acrimoniously.
Law told The Independent that his group would invest "commensurate with what we have done in the past," including an unsuccessful attempt to elect then-Rep/ Joseph J. Heck (R) to retiring Sen. Harry M. Reid's (D) seat last cycle.
In an explanatory video, Lessig said the PAC will run a pilot campaign in the 2014 election, attempting to elect five candidates — showing that Washington money matters in elections and everyday citizens can have a voice.
Parliament voted to scrap a law that required 50percentt voter turnout for a presidential election, a rule that thwarted three attempts to elect a new president in the last 15 months.
But in the Senate, it took four attempts to elect the centre-left's choice, Franco Marini.
Istanbul was on Sunday hosting a meeting of Syrian opposition groups who are attempting to elect a national council.
Tensions between Turkey's secularist parties and Erdoğan's AKP were highlighted in 2007, when attempts to elect an AKP candidate with Islamist roots to the country's presidency were blocked in parliament by an opposition boycott.
