Rabble in election swamped by different calls for attention (3,6)
I believe the answer is:
hoi polloi
'rabble' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'election swamped by different calls for attention' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'election' could be 'poll' (I've seen this before) and 'poll' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hoi polloi that I've seen before include "vulgar rabble" , "Riff-raff" , "The plain people in Greece" , "The common people generally" , "The masses (Greek)" .)