reelect

See also: reëlect and re-elect

English

Alternative forms

• re-elect
• reëlect (dated)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-der.

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

English elect

English reelect

From re- + elect.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

reelect (third-person singular simple present reelects, present participle reelecting, simple past and past participle reelected)

1. To elect for a second or subsequent time.
   • 2025 May 14, “Omaha poised to have first Black leader after mayor concedes race”, in CNN‎^[1], sourced from Associated Press, archived from the original on 1 March 2026:

     Voters in Omaha were set to make history Tuesday by either reelecting the city’s first female mayor to a rare fourth term or electing the community’s first Black mayor.

Related terms

• reelection

Translations

to elect for a subsequent time

• Bulgarian: преизбирам (preizbiram)
• Catalan: reelegir (ca), reescollir
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 再選 / 再选 (zh) (zàixuǎn), 改選 / 改选 (zh) (gǎixuǎn)

• Danish: genvælge
• Esperanto: reelekti
• Finnish: valita uudelleen
• French: réélire (fr)
• German: wiederwählen (de)
• Hungarian: újraválaszt (hu)
• Japanese: 再選する (ja) (さいせんする, zaisen suru), 改選する (ja) (かいせんする, kaisen suru)
• Korean: 재선하다 (jaeseonhada)
• Latin: reēligō
• Manx: aaheiy
• Norwegian: gjenvelge
• Polish: wybierać ponownie impf, wybrać ponownie pf
• Portuguese: reeleger (pt)
• Russian: переизбира́ть (ru) impf (pereizbirátʹ), переизбра́ть (ru) pf (pereizbrátʹ)
• Spanish: reelegir (es), reesleer, reesleír
• Swedish: omvälja (sv), återvälja
• Ukrainian: переобира́ти impf (pereobyráty), переобра́ти pf (pereobráty)
• Vietnamese: tái cử (vi), tái bầu, tái bầu cử

Anagrams

• electer, electre