Illustration: At a small neighborhood association election in a Japanese community hall, officials have sorted ballots into two clearly unequal piles. Each pile sits beneath a portrait of its candidate, and the emptied ballot box remains between them.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

落らく選せん

rakusen

to lose an election

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは私わたしたちの予想よそうに反はんして落選らくせんした。

    He failed to get elected contrary to our expectation.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 月亭可朝つきていかちょうは2回出馬かいしゅつばしてすべて落選らくせん。

    Kacho TSUKITEI ran in the election twice, but he was rejected both times.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. しかし1924年ねんの総選挙そうせんきょで落選らくせんし議員生活ぎいんせいかつを離はなれる。

    But in 1924, he was not elected in the general election, and he separated from the life of Dietman.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 落選

  • 落fall; dropOnラクKunおちる・おち・おとす
  • 選elect; selectOnセンKunえらぶ・える・よる

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