单词by-election
n.: （议员等的）补缺选举
网络: 补选；递补选举；补选活动
（议员等的）补缺选举，补选:
an election of a new Member of Parliament to replace sb who has died or left parliament
(英国国会的)补缺选举
〔政〕特别选举,补缺选举
复数：by-elections
n.electiongeneral electionballotpoll
It stayed out of the latest by-election, saying it would not compete with a red-shirt "terrorist" .
它没有插手此次补选，表示不想跟红衫“恐怖分子”相提并论。
An incumbent Member of any District Council cannot be nominated at the by-election .
现任区议员得在今次补选中接受提名。
Observer Thoahlane also notes that this was a by- election .
观察家托赫兰恩还注意到这次选举本身是递补选举。
Men ride on top of a Jeep in the Kenyan town of Kilgoris to celebrate the victory of their local candidate for parliament in a by-election.
在肯尼亚镇基尔戈里斯，男子坐于一辆吉普车上，以庆祝他们的胜利，由选举产生的当地议会候选人。
Joshua Teitelbaum of the Moshe Dayan Center and a professor at Tel Aviv University says the polling data will likely change by Election Day.
不过，特拉维夫大学达扬中心的教授泰特尔鲍姆说，民意调查在选举日时很有可能会改变。
It sat out a by-election May 16 that more strident opposition parties had portrayed as a de facto referendum on faster democratic reforms.
民主党没有参加5月16日举行的补缺选举，多个更为强硬的反对党此前称补缺选举是就更迅速的民主改革的一次事实上的全民公决。
So perhaps our political obsession with the next by-election results is not an unmitigated boon.
所以，我们对于下一轮补缺选举的结果产生的政治迷惑或许也不是什么好事。
"If we don"t get ahead of this, we are going to face a run on the retail banks by election day, " he said.
他说“如果我们不领先于现状，我们将不得不面临一个零售银行的选举日。”
The critics point to a recent parliamentary by-election in a safe seat, which the UMP held by only the thinnest of threads.
批评家指出了最近在一个稳操胜券的选区进行的补选，在这次选举中，UMP只以微小的优势获胜。
The weak poll results follow a heavy defeat for the ruling Liberal Democratic party in a by-election last weekend.
在糟糕的民意调查结果出台前，日本执政党自民党在上周末一次补选中遭遇重挫。