What do Calvinists teach about the Election of mankind? Is it before or after the Creation? From this link:


  Calvin also reminds us that Paul states that the love God had for us
  before the creation of the world had always been founded in Christ


From this link:


  Calvinists believe that God picked those who he will save and bring
  with him to Heaven before the world was created


From this link:


  Election is an act of God before creation


From this link:


  Reprobation is the sovereign decision of God before creation




From the sentences of the quotes above lead me to think that Calvinist teach that the U (from Unconditional Election) is before the creation 

but because in my other question, there is a comment like this :
Neither scripture nor Calvin make any statements about mankind before it is created. It would be illogical to do so.

That's why I ask the question.
Since virtually it's formation as a school of thought, Calvinism has disagreed about the logical order of God's divine decrees. Generally there have been two schools with the minority (5% according to wikipedia) espousing the pre-lapsarian (lit. pre-fall) view that God elects to save and condemn prior to even create or allow sin. The majority view is the post-lapsarian (lit. after-fall) perspective which holds that Gods election to save and condemn follows the creation and sin of humanity.

Note that given the determinism of the Calvinist view of the world, and the a-temporal nature of God, it is, strictly speaking, improper to think of time before creation but these have been the commonly espoused views about the logical order in which God's commands about how the world would be made, occurred. This means in a temporal sense God elected before creating, but disagreement exists about whether he logically decreed election before or after decreeing creation and the fall.

This is why the majority of reformed theologians and statements of faith can simultaneously claim that God elected to salvation and punishment (temporally) before creating even while almost none of them have been pre-lapsarian. Therefore, the majority have held that at the very least election is logically subsequent to human sin, even while God's plan was established before the act of salvation.