0 past simple and past participle of deselect
1 to choose, as a local political party, not to have the person who now represents your party as your candidate at the next election
To be deselected first requires the parties to have the formal power to deselect candidates.
Given that councillors were only rarely deselected by their parties, there were very few effective means of enforcing a party line.
It was therefore promptly deselected, or whatever is the parliamentary phrase for that.
Local people can give their views; councillors can give their views; people can get elected, or deselected on that basis.
The sanction is that if they do not toe the line they end up being deselected and lose their livelihood.
Indeed, in the primary elections, the official candidate was deselected in eight constituencies.
He was given few thanks by his local association when it deselected him because of the adverse media coverage.
The nine directors cannot be deselected or reselected for three years.
