0 present participle of unseat --
1 to remove someone from power, especially as a result of an election: --
2 If a horse unseats its rider, it throws them from its back. --
Hayden sued over his unseating, which resulted in two hung juries and two victories.
Unseating an incumbent supervisor is extraordinarily difficult, due largely to the prohibitive cost of mounting a successful challenge in districts of such enormous geographical and population size.
The unseating or destooling of a chief by tribal elders was a fairly common practice if the chief failed to meet the desires or expectations of the community.
Mormons tended to vote as a bloc there, wielding considerable political and economic influence, often unseating local political leadership and earning long-lasting enmity in the frontier communities.
Between 1857 and 1868 six petitions were lodged against election results, of which three succeeded in voiding the election and unseating one or more of the victors.
This comprehensive list included public roads, tariffs, coining, collecting punitive fees, and the investiture, the seating and unseating of office holders.
Mormons tended to vote as a bloc there often unseating local political leadership.
He was successful, unexpectedly unseating the impregnable incumbent member.
