How To Pronounce Election

In British English, election is pronounced /ɪˈlek.ʃən/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ɪˈlek.ʃn̩]. In American English, it is pronounced /ɪˈlek.ʃən/.

Election has three syllables, and the main stress falls on the second syllable. British and American speakers say it the same way.

Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.