"Electoral defeat" means losing an election or not winning enough votes to secure a position or victory in an election.
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- The result was a series of races where Democratic incumbents were able to drag themselves from the brink of electoral defeat by going negative early and often against their Republican opponents. (voices.washingtonpost.com)
- The damage to democratic process is immense, as electoral defeats would come to be seen as a violation of a right to dignity. (firstthings.com)
- Any party seeking to recover from electoral defeat has to develop a coherent analysis of why it lost, and what ought to be done to put it right. (policy-network.net)
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