electionless

English

Etymology

From election +‎ -less.

Adjective

electionless (not comparable)

1. Without elections.
   • 2014 December, Peter Gordon, “Hong Kong’s Political System Can Be Made to Work”, in Global Asia‎^[1]:

     Although the establishment is nominally in favor of elections, a continuation of an electionless status quo would suit much of it just fine.

   • 2016 January 21, Leigh Phillips, “Electionless inter-governmentalism über alles”, in ROAR Magazine‎^[2]:

     There is a slew of treaties, organizations and agencies that form the scaffolding of the emerging global governance structure regulating and superintending everything from nuclear weapons to the fishing of halibut, and all of them embody electionless intergovernmentalism.

   • 2018 April 13, Ben Stephens, “Is Divergent’s Jeanine Matthews Truly a Villain, or a Secret Heroine?”, in Ben Talks Books‎^[3]:

     This electionless system ensures that there is no elected opposition with the power to hold the governing faction to account.