By-election
An election for a single vacant seat, held partway through a term. The term used in Commonwealth countries for a special election.
- Code
- byElection
- Full identifier (IRI)
- https://schema.govfresh.com/v1/electtype/byElection
- Part of
- Election type
- JSON file
- /v1/codelists/election-type.json
- Profile
- elections
A document only ever uses the short code above (byElection). The full identifier
is just its complete, globally unique form, so any system reading it knows exactly which term is meant.