Difference between "Elect as" and "Elect to" [closed]

Solution 1:

The difference is in the preposition.

When you elect someone as President (say), they become President.

However, if you want to use to then you can only elect someone to the office of President — that is, the status, the position of being President. They are elected and moved into that position.

The people elected Peter Bloggs as President.
The people elected Peter Bloggs to the office/position of President.

In practice, these statements mean the same thing, and are simply different ways of expressing the result of the election. However each preposition is used in its own way. You can't elect Peter Bloggs *to President; nor can you elect him *as the office of President.

You can elect someone to a particular place, like "to the House of Representatives". This is the same use of to — they are elected and moved into the House to do that particular job.

Note that the adjectival suffix -elect is different. That simply indicates that although someone has been successful in an election, they haven't yet taken up the position. Thus a President-elect has been successful in the election but has not yet been sworn in; a bishop-elect has been chosen but not yet enthroned.

[Office: see office² in Lexico]