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By-election   /baɪ-ɪlˈɛkʃən/   Listen
By-election

noun
1.
A special election between regular elections.  Synonym: bye-election.






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"By-election" Quotes from Famous Books



... report of the Budget resolutions there was, of course, the usual attempt to get rid of the tea-duty. As Colonel WARD sarcastically pointed out, opposition to this particular impost has been for years the "by-election stunt" of every party in turn. To-day the rejection was moved by the Labour Party, and when the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER asked if in exchange they were prepared to extend the income-tax downwards Mr. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 5, 1920 • Various

... staying at the White Hart. Mr. Waddington spoke on "What the League Can Do." Owing to a sudden unforeseen shortage in his ideas he was obliged to fall back on his electioneering speech and show how useful the League would be if at any time there were a by-election in the county. The pop-popping of Mrs. Levitt's hands burst into a silent space. Nobody, not even Kimber or Partridge, was going ...
— Mr. Waddington of Wyck • May Sinclair



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