| RUNOFF | Election after the election |
| LAMEDUCK | A politician in the U.S. in a final period of office after the election of a successor (4,4) |
| MARCOS | Imelda who said "Win or lose, we go shopping after the election" |
| NORRIS | Came fifth in the last presidential election after withdrawing and then rejoining the race. (6) |
| RUNO | Election after an election |
| ANDYGRIFFITH | A sheriff candidate in Wisconsin changed his name to this famous TV actor's for a 2007 election; after losing, he was sued by the actor |
| NOTWITHSTANDING | Evidently a sensible person seeking election after opening of hustings, however |
| ICANNOTTELLALIE | 'All in at election after touring', as country's leader once reputedly said (1,6,4,1,3) |
| ELECTOR | Formerly, any of the German princes with the right to take part in the election of the Holy Roman Em |
| INAUGURATION | --- Day, the day on which a president of the US is formally placed in office, on January 20 of the year following the election (12) |
| SPLINTERPARTIES | In the end, however, the twig lost the election because a bunch of wood shavings had formed... |
| NOTARY | Advocate a Tory change after the end of the election (6) |
| ELABORATION | Refinement of Socialist speech after the start of the election (11) |
| RELIABLE | Trustworthy Liberal conversion before the start of the election (8) |
| VOTETORY | . . . . as the election starts clearing the road of vomitory political exhortation . . . . (4,4) |
| JEREMY | ___ Corbyn, leader of the 48A Party when 18A won the election (6) |
| CONCLAVE | What name is given to the assembly of cardinals for the election of a pope? (8) |
| OFFICER | Military man back from the front conducts the election (9,7) |
| RETURNING | Military man back from the front conducts the election (9,7) |
| RUNIN | November 12, 1991: ___ ___ the election and then win it - that's what June Rowlands did to become the first female Mayor of Toronto |
