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Originally Posted by Gayle
Well, today is the day of the Spring Hill by-election (how do you write that, should it be bye election, by election or by-election?).
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you do a quick search in google by copying and pasting each of the examples and discover
No-one seems to know!
So then you put it in wikipedia and get these results:-
A
by-election or
bye-election is a special
election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between general elections. Usually this occurs when the incumbent has died or
resigned, but it may also occur when the incumbent becomes ineligible to continue in office, for example because of a
recall or a sufficiently serious criminal conviction. Historically, members of some parliaments were required to seek re-election upon being appointed to a
ministerial post. The subsequent by-elections were termed
ministerial by-elections.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_election
