unelectableadj.
/ˌʌnᵻˈlɛktəbl/, U.S. /ˌənᵻˈlɛktəbl/, /ˌəniˈlɛktəb(ə)l/ Not having the qualities which make election likely or plausible; incapable of being elected.
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1932 A. Henderson Bernard Shaw, Playboy & Prophet 232 In no other way could Shaw have secured election; for he boasts with truth that he is a hopelessly unelectable person under any existing democratic franchise.
1968 Guardian 22 Aug. 9/7 Today's poll convincingly confirms that Mr Humphrey is unelectable.
1985 Tablet 9 Nov. 1171/2 The destructive events of the early 1980s..may well have made the Labour Party unelectable as a single governing party.
1992 J. Didion After Henry 79 A candidate believed to be so profoundly unelectable that he could take the entire Democratic party down with him.
Derivatives
uneˌlectaˈbility n.
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1976 Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin) 5 June a4/3 No one who saw him win California's governorship twice will entertain any notion of his ‘unelectability.’
2002 Church Times 15 Nov. 9/2 The party that transformed itself from the uncompromising unelectability of the Foot-Kinnock era into an administration that today looks well set for a third term.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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