reelection

See also: réélection, reëlection, and re-election

English

Alternative forms

• re-election
• reëlection (dated)

Etymology

From re- +‎ election.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

reelection (plural reelections)

1. Act of electing to office one previously elected to and serving in office.
   • 2025 April 16, Andrew Stanton, “Bernie Sanders Rally Crowd Size Tops 30K in District Trump Won Three Times”, in Newsweek‎:

     In November 2024, Kiley won reelection in the district where Folsom is located by about 11 points, though Trumps' victory was closer to 3 points, according to data compiled by analyst Drew Savicki and cited by the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.

2. The fact of being reelected.

Related terms

• reelect

Translations

the fact of being reelected

Afrikaans: herverkiesing Belarusian: перавыбіра́нне n (pjeravybiránnje), перавы́бары m pl (pjeravýbary) (repeated election) Catalan: reelecció f Chinese: Mandarin: 再選 / 再选 (zh) (zàixuǎn), 改選 / 改选 (zh) (gǎixuǎn) Czech: znovuzvolení n Danish: genvalg n Esperanto: reelektiĝo Finnish: uudelleenvalinta (fi) French: réélection (fr) f Georgian: მეორედ არჩევა (meored arčeva), მეორე ვადით არჩევა (meore vadit arčeva), ხელახლა არჩევა (xelaxla arčeva), ხელახალი არჩევა (xelaxali arčeva), ხელმეორე ვადით არჩევა (xelmeore vadit arčeva), კვლავ არჩევა (ḳvlav arčeva) German: Wiederwahl (de) f Greek: επανεκλογή (el) f (epaneklogí) Italian: rielezione (it) f Japanese: 再選 (ja) (さいせん, zaisen), 改選 (ja) (かいせん, kaisen) Manx: aareihys m, aaheiy m Norwegian: Bokmål: gjenvalg (no) Nynorsk: attval n Polish: reelekcja (pl) f Portuguese: reeleição (pt) f Russian: переизбра́ние (ru) n (pereizbránije), перевы́боры (ru) m pl (perevýbory) (repeated election) Spanish: reelección (es) f Swedish: omval (sv) n Ukrainian: переобра́ння n (pereobránnja), переви́бори m pl (perevýbory) (repeated election)

Further reading

• “reelection, re-election”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “reelection”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.