[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The art or practice of managing elections; canvassing on behalf of candidates for membership in representative assemblies. Also attrib.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 320. They [officers] are to manage their troops by electioneering arts.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 472. That base business of electioneering.
a. 1859. Macaulay, Biog. (1867), 17. He busied himself in electioneering, especially at Westminster.
1878. Black, Green Past., xvi. 129. Deeply interested in this electioneering plot.
