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ction; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate. A master of the whole art of electioneering. Macaulay.

One who electioneers.

The act or practice of rioting; riot. "Electioneering riotry." Walpole.

p. -- To go on the stump, or To take the stump, to engage in making public addresses for electioneering purposes; -- a phrase derived from the practice of using a stump for a speaker's platform in newly- settled districts. Hence also the phrases stump orator, stump speaker, stump speech, stump oratory, etc. [Colloq. U…