0 past participle, past simple of re-elect
1 to elect someone again to a particular position
He was re-elected in 1984 and 1990 with 51.9 and 52.6 per cent of the vote, respectively.
The key difference was that each intended to be re-elected, and to that end to create a society which was likely to re-elect it.
The president is elected directly through universal franchise by all citizens for a 7-year term and can be re-elected.
However, it is also possible that the politician will merely pander to popular beliefs in the hope of being re-elected.
In fact, legislators who whether deliberately or inadvertently neglect ombudsman services are less likely to be re-elected than those who devote resources to such activities.
The initial supposition was that she would have been re-elected if she had called an election immediately following the war.
The dependent variable is measured as the percentage of incumbents who are elected at one general election but fail to be re-elected at the next general election.
This is not a people that sits easily within the neatly trimmed and weeded borderlines of 'nationhood', nor one that can be conveniently dissolved and re-elected.
