Election
Middle English: via Old French from Latin electio(n- ), from eligere ‘pick out’ (see elect).
wiktionary
From Middle English eleccioun, eleccion, from Anglo-Norman eleccioun, from Latinēlectiōn-, stem of ēlectiō(“choice, selection”), from ēligō(“I pluck out, I choose”).
etymonline
election (n.)
c. 1300, eleccioun, "act of choosing" someone to occupy a position, elevation to office" (whether by one person or a body of electors); also "the holding of a vote by a body of electors by established procedure; the time and place of such a vote," from Anglo-French eleccioun, Old French elecion "choice, election, selection" (12c.), from Latin electionem (nominative electio) "a choice, selection," noun of action from past-participle stem of eligere "pick out, select," from ex "out" (see ex-) + -ligere, combining form of legere "to choose," from PIE root *leg- (1) "to collect, gather."
In Middle English also "act of choosing" generally, "choice, free choice" (c. 1400). The theological sense of "God's choice of someone" for eternal life is from late 14c. Meaning "act of choosing, choice" is from c. 1400.
