leadership spill

noun

A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant and open for re-election.

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Meanings

nounleadership spill (plural leadership spills)

plural leadership spills

  1. AustraliangovernmentA declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant and open for re-election.

    Despite claims by the Snedden forces that the rebels had managed to muster no more than 14 votes for a leadership 'spill', the result in the secret ballot had in fact been very close.

    1976, Laurie Oakes, Crash Through Or Crash: The Unmaking of a Prime Minister, page 41
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APA

leadership spill. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leadership%20spill

MLA

“leadership spill.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leadership%20spill. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “leadership spill,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leadership%20spill.

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