Las elecciones son hoy.

Spanish often uses the definite article more than English does. Las elecciones means the elections. In a sentence like this, Spanish normally includes the article.

If you said just Elecciones son hoy, it would sound unnatural.

In Spanish, elecciones is normally used in the plural to refer to an election event in general, even when English might say the election in the singular.

So:

• Las elecciones son hoy = The election is today / The elections are today

This is just the usual way Spanish expresses it.

Because elecciones is plural, the verb has to be plural too.

• la elección → singular → es
• las elecciones → plural → son

So:

• La elección es hoy = The election is today
• Las elecciones son hoy = The elections are today

Spanish uses ser for identifying when an event takes place.

That is why you say:

• La reunión es mañana
• El concierto es el viernes
• Las elecciones son hoy

Even though hoy refers to time, the idea is not location or temporary condition, but the scheduled date of an event, so ser is the normal verb.

Putting hoy at the end is the most neutral and natural word order here:

• Las elecciones son hoy.

You can also say:

• Hoy son las elecciones.

That version gives a little more emphasis to today. Both are correct, but the original sentence sounds very standard and natural.

Yes. In natural English, you would often translate it as The election is today or Election day is today, even though Spanish uses the plural elecciones.

So the Spanish structure is plural, but the most natural English meaning may be singular.

A Spain Spanish pronunciation would be approximately:

eh-lek-THYO-nes

Important points:

• ll in elecciones is pronounced like a y sound in most modern Spanish accents.
• In most of Spain, c before i or e sounds like th in think.
• The stress is on -cio-: elecCIOnes

A rough full pronunciation of the sentence in Spain Spanish is:

las eh-lek-THYO-nes son oy

The singular is la elección.

You would use it when referring to one specific choice or one election in the singular sense:

• La elección fue difícil. = The choice was difficult.
• La elección presidencial es mañana. = The presidential election is tomorrow.

But very often, when talking about public elections in general, Spanish still prefers the plural las elecciones.

Yes.

• elecciones usually refers to elections in the political sense
• votaciones refers more literally to voting, ballots, or the act/process of voting

So Las elecciones son hoy means The elections are today, not simply The voting is today, although the ideas are related.

Yes, if you are talking about la elección in the singular. It is grammatically correct.

But in everyday Spanish, especially for political elections, las elecciones is often the more natural expression.

So these are both possible, depending on context:

• Las elecciones son hoy.
• Hoy es la elección.

The first one is usually the safer, more common phrasing.

It is a very simple statement with:

• Subject: Las elecciones
• Verb: son
• Time expression: hoy

So the structure is:

[subject] + [form of ser] + [time]

This same pattern is very common:

• La fiesta es mañana.
• El examen es el lunes.
• Las elecciones son hoy.