How to Use by-election in a Sentence

by-election

noun

• Khan’s party has done well in by-elections held since his ouster.
  — Mehdi Hasan, NBC News, 26 July 2023
• In Britain, the small Green Party has won its first by-election.
  — Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
• The Liberal Party has lost other by-elections over the course of the summer.
  — Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2024
• The director said the concept of a by-election provided a compelling framework.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Mar. 2026
• The legislature will face another round of possible shake-ups when by-elections are held later this year.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 28 July 2025
• If Yoon is removed or resigns, a presidential by-election will be held within 60 days.
  — Stella Kim, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2024
• If Yoon is removed from office, a presidential by-election must be held within 60 days.
  — Stella Kim, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2025
• That level of attention is all-but unheard of for a midterm by-election to fill one of the 650 seats in the House of Commons.
  — ABC News, 11 June 2026
• Rayner is another Labour lawmaker to voice her support for Burnham to be able to run in a possible by-election.
  — Callum Sutherland, Time, 12 May 2026
• Polls opened early in Wigan, part of the parliamentary constituency for the Makerfield by-election.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 18 June 2026
• Burnham beat both Reform and Restore candidates to win the Makerfield by-election.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 22 June 2026
• Even if the establishment prevails, anti-system beliefs will leave their mark, as evidenced by the rise of the Reform party in recent by-elections.
  — Clifford Young, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• In February, the party’s governing body blocked Burnham from running in another by-election.
  — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
• There are by-elections for three seats in Parliament in the coming months that could provide the Liberals with a majority government.
  — ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
• Starmer’s exit was all but confirmed late last week following the result of a by-election in the Manchester constituency of Makerfield.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 22 June 2026
• An earlier bid by Burnham to contest a by-election back in January was blocked by Starmer loyalists in an attempt to head off a challenge.
  — Hugh Leask, CNBC, 15 May 2026
• While he has been given the green light to contest a by-election in Makerfield, in the north of England, victory is not guaranteed, as rival parties line up to contest the seat.
  — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 18 May 2026
• The 2018 election shattered popular confidence in the electoral system, as reflected in the very low turnout in all the local and by-elections that have taken place since then.
  — Ali Riaz, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2022
• But the scores of journalists from around the world who have flocked to Makerfield during the campaign are evidence that this is no normal by-election, the results of which are due early Friday.
  — ABC News, 18 June 2026
• Rob Kenyon, a plumber and local councilor, is running as Reform UK’s candidate in Thursday’s by-election.
  — Katie Marie Davies, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2026
• Farage will hope the by-election will return him to parliament all but unopposed, his mandate renewed and his image as a man of the people capable of taking on the system, more Teflon-coated than ever.
  — Melissa Bell, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
• Recent public surveys show that governing and opposition party candidates are running neck-and-neck in a possible presidential by-election race.
  — Hyung-Jin Kim, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
• Both parties still have relatively few seats in parliament but have won recent by-elections and if opinion polls are to be believed, the British political system is about to be fragmented into four parties.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
• Council by-elections through January 2026 show Reform winning 40% of contested seats.
  — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• But his position now seems untenable, days after former Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham won a by-election to return to parliament.
  — Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 22 June 2026
• The country’s by-elections this week have seen a number of diverse new faces thrust into the national spotlight – which supporters have celebrated as a welcome change to the country’s government, mostly run by conservative older men.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
• Among the candidates running for the parliamentary by-elections is Han Dong-hoon, leader of the reformist faction who was eventually expelled from the PPP.
  — ABC News, 2 June 2026
• Burnham was promptly selected as Labour’s candidate, making Thursday’s by-election perhaps the most consequential in British history.
  — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
• But the media and public accused him of weak party management, and in parliamentary by-elections in April, the LDP lost all three seats being contested in what was viewed as punishment by voters.
  — Arata Yamamoto, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
• Farage has given noticeably fewer press conferences in the months since the Guardian story broke, though that period also coincided with two months of campaigning for the local elections and Makerfield by-election.
  — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 5 July 2026