Unseating is a political term which refers to a legislator who loses their seat in an election. A legislator who is unseated loses the right to sit in a legislative chamber. A

landslide victory A landslide victory is an election result in which the victorious candidate or party wins by an overwhelming margin. The term became popular in the 1800s to describe a victory in which the opposition is "buried", similar to the way in which a geol ...

results in many legislators being unseated.

Canada

List of MPs who lost their seat in the 2011 Canadian federal election This is the list of the 91 Member of Parliament (Canada), Members of the Parliament of Canada, Canadian Parliament that lost their seat at the 2011 Canadian federal election. The leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party Michael Ignati ...

List of MPs who lost their seat in the 2015 Canadian federal election This is a list of MPs that lost their seat at the 2015 Canadian federal election. Outgoing incumbents are identified by their party affiliation at dissolution. * Bold indicates Cabinet Minister or member of Opposition shadow cabinet * ‡ means ...

List of MPs who lost their seat in the 2019 Canadian federal election This is a list of Member of Parliament (Canada), MPs that Unseating, lost their seat at the 2019 Canadian federal election. Composition The region with the most defeated Canadian MP, MPs was the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, win which 5 ...

* List of MPs who lost their seat in the 2021 Canadian federal election

France

List of MPs who lost their seat in the 2017 French legislative election This is a list of MPs who lost their seat at the 2017 French legislative election. All of these députés sat in the 14th legislature of the French Fifth Republic but were not returned to Parliament in the elections. In total, incumbent 206 mem ...

List of MPs who lost their seat in the 2022 French legislative election This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) who lost their seat in the 2022 French legislative election. All of these deputies sat in the 15th legislature of the French Fifth Republic but were not returned to the French Parliament in the election ...

Germany

List of MPs who lost their seat in the 2021 German federal election This is a list of MPs who lost their seat at the 2021 German federal election. All of these members sat in the 19th Bundestag but were not returned to Parliament in the elections. Those listed include members who were elected in 2017 File:20 ...

Russia

* List of members of the 7th Russian State Duma who were not re-elected

United Kingdom

Unseating influential

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is a goal of opposition parties. MPs representing

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constituencies An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity ...

are usually at higher risk of being unseated. At the 1918 election following the

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, the Liberal leader and leader of the opposition

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lost a seat he had held since 1886. A biographer said of this "the blow was crippling, a personal humiliation which destroyed his hope of exercising any influence on the peace settlement."

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, was unseated in

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, widely expected to be the next Conservative leader, lost his seat at the 1997 general election, an event which coined the expression "

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". At the 2015 general election,

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and

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were unseated in political upsets. In 2019, the

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leader,

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, was unseated by the

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Lists

* List of MPs who lost their seat in the 1997 United Kingdom general election *

List of MPs who lost their seat in the 2010 United Kingdom general election This is a list of MPs who lost their seat at the 2010 United Kingdom general election. In total, 74 MPs lost their seats. Members of Parliament who lost their seats References

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List of MPs who lost their seat in the 2015 United Kingdom general election This is a list of MPs who lost their seat at the 2015 United Kingdom general election, 2015 general election. Open seats changing hands Notes References

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List of MPs who lost their seat in the 2017 United Kingdom general election This is a list of MPs who lost their seat at the 2017 United Kingdom general election The 2017 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 8 June 2017, two years after the previous general election in 2015; it was the first sin ...

* List of MPs who lost their seat in the 2019 United Kingdom general election

United States

When an incumbent

Member of Congress A Member of Congress (MOC) is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature. The term member of parliament (MP) is an equivalen ...

runs for re-election they may be unseated in the general election. This is more likely if the politician represents a

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swing district A marginal seat or swing seat is a constituency held with a small majority in a Legislature, legislative election, generally one conducted under a single-winner voting system. In Canada, they may be known as Target ridings in the Canadian federal ...

. * Unseated members of the United States Congress

References

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