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by-elections
n. (plural of by-election English)
Usage examples of "by-elections".
You'll pick up votes in by-elections and eventually you'll come around and tell me I can add 'Emperor of Mars' to the list.
With the general public their influence is nil, as one can see by the votes in the by-elections, and the powerful hold they had on the press in the years 1935-9 has been completely broken.
As a party it won by-elections during the war but fared disastrously in the 1945 General Election when most of its twenty-three candidates, including Acland, lost their deposits against Labour opposition.
His - Paul Bethune's - party had recently picked up a couple of marginal seats in by-elections and were confident of taking Hoopwestern since 'the need for change' was in the air.