Definition of "bye-election" [bye-election]

• A special election between regular elections (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "This bye-election will be a pointer to a deep hole they've dug themselves into."
• "It was hard to hear the bye-election results as the National Front kept shouting."
• "The political elite, which loathes the electorate it claims to represent, has done its best to laugh off David Davis 'decision to resign and fight a bye-election on the issue of our essential freedoms and to present him as, well, not to put too fine a point on it, barking mad."