Meanings of elect by acclamation in English

The previous three leaders were elected by acclamation rather than one member one vote.

On her arrival the little beauty was elected by acclamation.

The result was that all the other candidates withdrew, and Garfield was elected by acclamation.

Claiborne, who was the Territorial Governor, was elected by acclamation the first Governor of the State.

Pope Julius had always been elected by acclamation.

In 1886 he was elected by acclamation.

Sergeant Jack Sullivan was elected by acclamation.

I was elected by acclamation.

Mr Kofi Annan was elected by acclamation today to a second five-year term as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations.

After a struggle lasting three months Cardinal Giovanni Angelo de' Medici, who was more or less neutral, was elected by acclamation.

The next matter was the election of the Board of Selectmen; and the old board was elected by acclamation without a division.

Sometimes the members were elected by acclamation, sometimes by show of hands, sometimes by a poll, one voter after another expressing orally his preference.

Hunyady died, worn out with ceaseless warfare, and his son, Matthias, was elected by acclamation to be monarch of the land the father had preserved.

The administration is now appointed by the President, and he, having been elected by acclamation, "President for life," is in the nature of elective autocrat.