1851 Mar. 244 When his post election conduct falsified the expectations..of the people, the discrepancy was attributed to his secretaries.
1956 H. Macmillan 8 Apr. (2003) 548 All of us were the beneficiaries of this ‘electioneering Budget’. It will be too much of a cry of ‘peccavi’ if we put it back on in the first post-election Budget.
1995 Jan. 7/1 The post-election sifting of the vote confirmed the pre-election impression of panic among the possessing classes.