hustings

While on the hustings, both men made quick jaunts into the South during late April.

1981, Paul D. Casdorph, Republicans, Negroes, and Progressives in the South, 1912-1916

In the forthcoming election the Budget will be referred to very little indeed out on the hustings.

1993, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)

Finding that he could not be heard during a hustings in the town hall, he armed members of his family with a bell and instead addressed bemused voters at the open windows of their tenements.

2006, David Torrance, The Scottish Secretaries, Birlinn Publishers

'Look, Mr Robinson,' he spits, before attempting to blame 'the most minor confusion' on the fact that his candidate wasn't listening properly because he'd been 'doing hustings after hustings after hustings' and facing 'question after question after question'. In fact he's done three hustings during the entire campaign.

2015 June 11, Nick Robinson, Election Notebook: The Inside Story Of The Battle Over Britain’s Future And My Personal Battle To Report It, Random House, →ISBN, page 189

Health secretary Matt Hancock was booed and heckled at a general election hustings in his constituency after he launched an attack on Jeremy Corbyn over his handling of antisemitism.

2019 November 30, Eleanor Busby, “Matt Hancock booed and heckled by crowd as hustings descends into chaos”, in The Independent

In April he addressed, after his father, a large audience at a hustings in Edinburgh, the first time he had stepped onto a stage and spoken.

2021 March 30, Josh Ireland, Churchill & Son, Penguin, →ISBN, page 85