elective vs top-priority

elective

noun
  • Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study. 

adj
  • Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options. 

  • Open to choice; freely chosen. 

top-priority

adj
  • To be done before doing anything else. 

  • Of the highest level of importance 

How often have the words elective and top-priority occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )