0 to remove someone from power, especially as a result of an election:
1 If a horse unseats its rider, it throws them from its back.
2 to remove someone from a powerful job, esp. a job to which a person is elected:
Only fifteen times in a total of 106 cases has a sitting majority party member been unseated in favor of a minority party contestant.
Another avenue to pursue would be to examine only those cases in which a contestant successfully unseated a constestee.
However, enhancing stability also means that it is harder to unseat a government.
Recognition of local unease at maladministration resulted in a clause allowing the cottagers to unseat trustees and make new appointments if they were dissatisfied.
Rather than eliminate stool debts and forestall disputes, the conflation of private with public property encouraged chiefs to evade accountability and provoked their subjects to try to unseat them.
As to the election, whatever merit they might have derived from their labours of a single day, they had thrown away by conspiring to unseat the elect.
Only those challengers who are highly competitive and have the public mood behind them will unseat an incumbent, and those who do not have both stand little chance of victory.
He was elected in 1871 and defeated in 1875 but was elected in a subsequent by-election after the sitting member was unseated after an appeal.
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