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The act of being elected after already being elected once, and already having served out one's first term.
Examples of reelection in a Sentence
He was himself defeated in this year for reelection to Congress.
He was elected for 1903 and by reelection served for 12 years.
Protests against the war and President Johnson himself had grown so strident by 1968 that he wisely chose not to run for reelection.
She was also associated after 1886 with the National American Woman's Suffrage Association as lecturer, vice-president-at-large, and from 1904-15 as president, when she declined reelection.
As an Opposition leader he also congratulated the Speaker upon his reelection.
In 1913 he entered the U.S. Senate, succeeding Winthrop Murray Crane, but was defeated for reelection in 1919.
When he lost reelection, the politician found that he didn't like being abased by his party.
He served two terms in the Ohio Senate (1900-4), and during the second was influential in securing Senator Foraker's reelection to the U.S. Senate.
Some powers to be thought that seeing as I'm not standing for reelection, they might as well get the office in shape for the new guy.
The Liberal party had been instrumental in the reelection of Nunez, and looked for a policy in conformity with their views and political convictions.