"overwhelmingly selected" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It implies that the majority of the people who participated in the selection process chose the same item or option. For example, "Libby's proposal was overwhelmingly selected by the planning board as the best option for the project."
The party-controlled legislature overwhelmingly selected Li, the only candidate for the office, which is China's number two position politically and its top job in practical terms.
The first survey, unveiled on "60 Minutes" and CBS News.comon Sunday, reports that respondents overwhelmingly selected Wal-Mart as the best corporate symbol of America today.
The voters overwhelmingly selected Henrique Capriles Radonski, a 39-year-old state governor, to take on Mr. Chávez in a general election scheduled for Oct. 7.
Even Kate Cameron, in the Daily News, gave it four stars, and on Sunday, May 4th, Bosley Crowther wrote in the Times, "The returns are in from most of the local journalistic precincts and Orson Welles' 'Citizen Kane' has been overwhelmingly selected as one of the great (if not the greatest) motion pictures of all time. . .
"If Trump does not run the table on the rest of the primaries and the caucuses, we're looking at a very, very narrow path in which the kingmakers go all out to cheat, to steal, and to snatch this nomination from the candidate who was overwhelmingly selected by the voters, which is why I have urged Trump supporters: come to Cleveland, march on Cleveland, join us in the Forest City".
Pedro E. Segarra was sworn in as Hartford 66th Mayor after he was overwhelmingly selected by Hartford voters on January 3 , 2012
He was selected overwhelmingly.
But he reserved further comment, as did Republican convention officials who had eagerly selected this overwhelmingly Democratic city after seeing firsthand the evidence of its downtown renewal.
That was always a long shot, of course, because, just for starters, his perceived liberal slant made him unlikely to be selected by the overwhelmingly orthodox cardinals chosen under the current pope.
Overwhelmingly, this select group attended the top-rated law schools.
Our readers tend to have overwhelmingly strong responses to the books selected, but the fact that people defend or attack the books on the longlist with such passion points to a conviction that good writing must be supported.
