'preselection' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to the act of selecting or choosing something/someone in advance or before a main selection process takes place. It can also mean the process of choosing a smaller group from a larger pool for further consideration or evaluation. Example: The company has a rigorous preselection process for job applicants, which includes multiple rounds of interviews and assessments. Example: The student council will conduct a preselection of potential candidates before the school elections next month.
If you are dissatisfied with the MP's response, run a competitive preselection process to fairly deliver a candidate.
For example, the Australian Labor Party has used a "preselection" ballot, in which candidates in each locality have been selected by party members in that locality from those offering themselves for the preselection vote.
In October 1993 a vacancy occurred in the House of Representatives for the safe seat of Mackellar, and immediately Bishop announced her intention to leave the Senate to seek preselection for that seat, which she won in a March 1994 by-election.
A 20-page thread on Credit Boards about the opaque "preselection" option that some credit cards offer started two years ago and is still going.
The timing of the report is tricky for the government given Bishop faces a preselection battle for her seat of Mackellar.
Another example was a flyer authorised by a past candidate for Liberal preselection and circulated in marginal seats that warned that a vote for Labor was a vote for "radical gay sex education", Wong said.
That's why I am announcing today my intention to resign the office of Australia's Human Rights Commissioner effective from Friday, 19 February, to seek preselection to be the Liberal party's candidate for the federal electorate of Goldstein.
Albanese rubbished recent comments from Labor senator Gavin Marshall – a senator closely aligned with Victorian left powerbroker Kim Carr – that he intended to back a preselection challenge to fellow leftwinger, the member for Scullin, Andrew Giles.
Albanese said the recent preselection had been conducted in accordance with the rules, but in a public dig at Shorten, he noted that he has previously called for ALP members to have votes in all Senate preselections.
The meeting was triggered by a public declaration on Monday from the Victorian Labor senator Gavin Marshall – a senator closely aligned with Carr – that he intended to back a preselection challenge to fellow leftwinger, the member for Scullin, Andrew Giles.
Tony Abbott's New South Wales party division is paralysed by a bruising fight over preselection reforms, with members in some of the safest Liberal seats refusing to volunteer at the upcoming state election campaign.
