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: --
A testing obstacle that often leads to falls and unseated riders.
He was allowed to take his seat and then unseated.
Cao, however, was unseated in the 2010 general election.
Natural contraction and expansion of the wires tied to these threadless insulators resulted in insulators unseating from their pins, requiring manual reseating.
After his re-election in 1874, he was unseated on appeal but won the subsequent by-election.
Despite an extensive campaign in 2007 he was unseated by a significant margin.
He was elected in 1870 but was unseated after some votes were declared invalid.
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.