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by-election
[ bahy-i-lek-shuhn ]
noun
- a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
by-election
noun
- (in the United Kingdom and other countries of the Commonwealth) an election held during the life of a parliament to fill a vacant seat in the lower chamber
- (in the US) a special election to fill a vacant elective position with an unexpired term
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Word History and Origins
Origin of by-election1
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Example Sentences
Suu Kyi herself fought a by-election last April; she and dozens of her party colleagues were elected in remarkably fair elections.
The UK Conservatives finished a humiliating third in a by-election yesterday.
George Galloway has returned to Parliament, winning a by-election in Bradford, Yorkshire.
Serjeant Glynn, well known as the advocate of Wilkes, was afterwards elected as second member for Middlesex at a by-election.
It would mean a by-election in Bethnal Green, where he comes from.
In 1903 he was defeated as Liberal candidate for parliament at a by-election at Rochester.
A little later I was to speak somewhere in the North of England at a by-election in support of the party candidate.
To my great relief the Wymington committee have adopted Dale as their candidate at the by-election.
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