(of a voter) withdraw allegiance to a political party.
（投票者）不再支持某政党
when voters dealign, they become vessels of the Zeitgeist
Example sentencesExamples
Weakly identifying partisans are also growing in proportion as an outcome of a dealigning electorate.
Razzell has a feel for the modern, largely dealigned voter.
In the short run, some dealigned voters are ‘floating’ between the mainstream parties, while others have drifted into social isolation.
Derivatives
dealignment
noun
While the decline in party identification suggests there may have been a dealignment in American politics, voting behaviour suggest there has not.
Example sentencesExamples
There are 17 million who did not vote in last year's election - showing a dealignment, rather than a realignment.
The European results demonstrate the dealignment of political loyalties that has been accelerating under New Labour.
Key focus areas are voter turnout and participation, group voting behavior, the expansion of suffrage, and political realignment and dealignment.
Following dealignment in Western countries, voters came to cast their ballots based on their assessment of the incumbent government's performance, so that changing government became a way of punishing ruling parties.
Definition of dealign in US English:
dealign
verbˌdēəˈlīn
[no object]
(of a voter) withdraw allegiance to a political party.
（投票者）不再支持某政党
when voters dealign, they become vessels of the Zeitgeist
Example sentencesExamples
Razzell has a feel for the modern, largely dealigned voter.
Weakly identifying partisans are also growing in proportion as an outcome of a dealigning electorate.
In the short run, some dealigned voters are ‘floating’ between the mainstream parties, while others have drifted into social isolation.