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==English==
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===Etymology===
From {{m|en|snap|t=done, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly}}<ref>{{R:OED Online|entry=snap-|pos=''comb. form''|noformat=1|id=183001|date=1912|passage=In Parliamentary usage, [...] one obtained or taken unexpectedly or when comparatively few members are present.|nodot=1}}</ref> + {{m|en|election}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{a|RP}} {{IPA|en|/ˌsnæp ɪˈlɛkʃ(ə)n/}}
* {{a|GA}} {{IPA|en|/ˌsnæp iˈlɛkʃ(ə)n/}}
* {{audio|en|En-us-snap election.mp3|Audio (GA)}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɛkʃən}}
* {{hyphenation|en|snap elect|ion}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|politics}} An [[election]] that the [[ruler]] or [[political party]] which is [[in power]] [[call#Verb|calls]] before the [[regularly]] [[schedule#Verb|scheduled]] election [[time#Noun|time]].
#* {{quote-journal|en|title=No. 18. Notes and Comments Submitted by S. R. Mallory, of Florida, upon the Printed Statements and Arguments Addressed to the Select Committee of the United States Senate, by and in behalf of D. L. Yulee, to Sustain His Claim to the Seat Held by S. R. Mallory. July, 1852.|journal=The Miscellaneous Documents of the [[w:United States Senate|Senate of the United States]], during the First Session of the Thirty-second [[w:United States Congress|Congress]]|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=A. Boyd Hamilton,{{nb...|printer}}|year=1852|page=254|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=k2JHAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA16-PA254|oclc=24408846|passage=A legislature should no more encourage and sustain '''''snap elections''''', than a court should encourage and sustain ''snap judgment''.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Clara Brinkerhoff|authorlink=Clara M. Brinkerhoff|title=Art or Trade?: The Music Teachers’ National Association Dividing into an Eastern and a Western Wing|editor=Edgar S. Werner|magazine=The Voice: Devoted to the Human Voice in All Its Phases|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Edgar S. Werner|month=September|year=1887|volume=IX|number=9|page=139|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015025422448&view=1up&seq=183|column=1|oclc=13550982|passage=The echoes of the election of President by '''snap election''' ticket, which had been brewing ''sub rosa'' for almost a year, forced these views upon my mind.}}
#* {{quote-hansard|en|speaker={{w|Peter Fraser}}, [[w:Prime Minister of New Zealand|Prime Minister]]|debate=Business of the House|report=New Zealand. Parliamentary Debates. Fourth Session, Twenty-sixth Parliament. Legislative Council and House of Representatives|house=[[w:New Zealand House of Representatives|House of Representatives]]|volume=261|location=Wellington, New Zealand|publisher=E. V. Paul, government printer|date=4 December 1942|page=948|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0001757590&view=1up&seq=956|column=2|oclc=191255532|passage=Mr. [[w:Sidney Holland|[Sidney] HOLLAND]].—I think it is important for the House to know, because there are fairly widespread rumours going round of a general election. I do not know where the rumours came from. The Right Hon. Mr. [Peter] FRASER said that he could not authenticate the rumours. There would not be anything in the nature of a '''snap election'''.}}
#* {{quote-hansard|en|speaker=F. J. Bigg|debate=Pensions: Provisions for Establishment of Contributory Program|report=Canada: House of Commons Debates: Official Report: Second Session—Twenty Sixth Parliament: 13 Elizabeth II|house={{w|House of Commons of Canada}}|location=Ottawa, Canada|publisher=Roger Duhamel,{{nb...|F.R.S.C. Queen’s Printer and Controller of Stationery}}|date=23 February 1965|volume=XI|page=11654|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ien.35556002530327&view=1up&seq=312|column=2|oclc=48316963|passage=Let hon. members stop putting the red strips of bacon under the cellophane in the hope that because they are getting in first or are yelling the loudest they are going to take all the political advantage they can from it, hoping to win a '''snap election''' by offering the old people nothing and covering it up with aid to a few in the 55 to 65 age group.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Corazon Aquino|authorlink=Corazon Aquino|chapter=Speech during the Joint Session of the US Congress 1986|mainauthor=Anna Russell|title=So Here I Am: Speeches by Great Women to Empower and Inspire|location=London|publisher=White Lion Publishing, {{w|The Quarto Group}}|date=22 September 1986|year_published=2019|page=103|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JiiGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA103|column=1|isbn=978-1-78131-827-0|passage=Last year, in an excess of arrogance, the dictatorship called for its doom in a '''snap election'''. The people obliged. With over a million signatures, they drafted me to challenge the dictatorship. And I obliged.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Barry Gustafson|authorlink=Barry Gustafson|chapter=The 1984 Election|title=His Way: A Biography of Robert Muldoon|location=Auckland|publisher={{w|Auckland University Press}}|year=2000|page=375|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3wa4ZNaNVH8C&pg=PA375|isbn=978-1-86940-236-5|passage=The chief whip was in no doubt that had [[w:Marilyn Waring|[Marilyn] Waring]] agreed to tear up the letter, stay in the caucus, and attend select committees, [[w:Robert Muldoon|[Robert] Muldoon]] would have accepted that and not contemplated a '''snap election'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Thitinan Pongsudhirak|authorlink=Thitinan Pongsudhirak|chapter=Thaksin’s Political Zenith and Nadir|editors=Daljit Singh and Lorraine C[arlos] Salazar|title=Southeast Asian Affairs 2006|location=Singapore|publisher=[[w:ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute|Institute of Southeast Asian Studies]]|year=2006|page=299|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWxmZ4mNrSoC&pg=PA299|isbn=978-981-230-373-8|passage=By dissolving the Lower House and calling a '''snap election''', [[w:Thaksin Shinawatra|Thaksin [Shinawatra]]] intended to release the pressure from street protesters led by the PAD who had been demanding his immediate resignation.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=W. Elliot Bulmer|chapter=Introduction|title=A Model Constitution for Scotland: Making Democracy Work in an Independent State|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Luath Press|year=2011|page=13|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=YX7YBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA13|isbn=978-1-908373-13-7|passage=The Parliament was to be elected for fixed four-year terms, so that the Prime Minister would no longer be able to call '''snap elections''' to suit his own party's fortunes, nor cajole Parliament with the threat of arbitrary dissolution.}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|election called before the regularly scheduled time}}
* Danish: {{t|da|lynvalg|n}}, {{t|da|valg i utide|n}}
* French: {{t|fr|élection anticipée|f}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|ვადამდელი არჩევნები}}
* German: {{t|de|vorgezogene Neuwahl|f}}
* Greek: {{t|el|πρόωρες εκλογές|f-p}}
{{trans-mid}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|nyvalg|n}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|[[przedterminowy|przedterminowe]] [[wybory]]}}
* Romanian: {{t|ro|alegeri anticipate}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|elección anticipada|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|nyval|n}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===References===
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===Further reading===
* {{pedia}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=aceeilnnopst|penal notices}}

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