Elective gallbladders, lumps and bumps, hernias, sigmoids, some breast, and the occasional hemicolectomy. One of the community guys I worked with also had a steady referral of thyroids. With that said though about 30-40% of their patient load was acute GS (typically perfed tics and SBO). These guys run the only general surgery show at that hospital though so everything goes through them.
As an aside, this inevitably led to the private FPs dumping a crap ton of "acute care surgery", AKA "we just want you on board"/"I didn't want to come in to see my new pt with abdominal pain so I'll call the surgical resident in house to work it up" consults onto the service daily. I understand now that this is a pretty common nationwide occurrence but it was totally new for me as a resident and extremely aggravating as it basically cost them nothing to call in the CYA consult but ended up doubling our workload.
At our university hospital, trauma does all the acute general surgery and little elective. From everything that everyone else has posted that seems to be more and more the trend these days. This was the same at my medical school - we had relatively little trauma but all the acute general surgery stuff that rolled in through the ER and r/o acute abdomen consults kept that service hopping.
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