0 the action of choosing, as a local political party, not to have the person who now represents your party as your candidate at the next election:
The party meets tonight to debate a call for his deselection.
The probability of deselection can be expected to vary across electoral systems as the electoral system creates different incentives for the parties.
In this regard, selection and deselection issues not only persisted, but were magnified.
Deselection appears to be a relatively rare phenomenon, the norm being that incumbents desiring to run for re-election are renominated.
Deselection, as we define it, is distinct from intra-party electoral defeat.
In fact, it was striking how few of the deselection criteria were used.
