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• n  persuasion of voters in a political campaign
• n  the campaign of a candidate to be elected
• v  work actively for a political candidate or a party
  My neighbors are busy electioneering during the Presidential election campaign

• Rajiv, 46, heir to a miraculous name, disappeared in a fiendish conjurer's trick: amid the theatrics of an electioneering stop, and in the puff of smoke from a bomb.
• Under electioneering come wooing delegates, setting up campaign organizations, raising money.
• Haggard had intimated that the allegations may be an electioneering ploy.

• bell ringing
• canvassing
• campaigning
• candidacy
• candidature
• political campaign
• electioneer

News & Articles

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• Local News
  In a story about a Deerfield Township supervisors meeting in Tuesday's Times Observer, it was reported that Roadmaster William Jewell told Supervisor John Barnes that he believed candidates could not undertake electioneering within 100 feet of a polling place.
  June 14, 2013 - Warren Times Observer

Quotes

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• Pervez Musharraf in International Herald Tribune
  I regret some parties are boycotting the election while there is no justification,Musharraf said. "The electioneering has not started yet, but some parties are talking of rigging. People should take part in the electioneering, cast their...
• John Paul Stevens in Wall Street Journal
  In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens called the majority opinion "a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have:fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore...
• Vince Cable in Independent
  Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat economics spokesman, said: "Dangling this prospect, when it will take at least five years before the likes of RBS are back in private hands, is Tory electioneering at its most cynical."