The phrase "shadow election" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to an election that is not officially recognized or approved by authorities, but is instead organized and conducted by unofficial or underground groups. Example: The opposition party organized a shadow election to protest the results of the official election, which they believed was rigged.
Two primal Hummingbirds came up immediately, linked in the imagination: Hillary Clinton and her fictional shadow, "Election"'s Tracy Flick.
In June, after three mayoral campaign aides pleaded guilty to various charges connected to what U.S. Attorney Ron Machen has described as an illegal shadow election effort, many local political observers were convinced that Gray's political career would not survive the summer.
It's experimenting with "shadow elections" in one county where voters click their candidate in a weeklong mock election.
John Healey, the relatively unknown MP who came second in the shadow cabinet election, was appointed shadow health secretary.
Thursday's Shadow Cabinet election turned out well for the Balls-Cooper household; Ms Cooper topped the poll and her husband was third.
It was seen as a reward for standing in the Labour leadership contest, although she secured only 59 votes in the Shadow Cabinet election.
The plans for shadow cabinet election will be among a series of recommendations for rule changes put forward by various members.
Lord Mandelson, writing in the Guardian, describes the process of shadow cabinet election as "an absurdity", but admits that New Labour had lost out because in government it had been too lazy to organise the grassroots, acting as if the nitty gritty of such work was beneath it.
Cooper, who received the most votes in the shadow cabinet election, held separate talks with Miliband, and from a different perspective argued that Labour's deficit reduction plans would lead to massive public sector job losses that the private sector could not replace.
The results of the shadow cabinet elections will be announced next Thursday.
The plans for shadow cabinet elections will be among recommendations for rule changes put forward by various members.
