vote one out

vote one out
{v. phr.} To terminate one's elected office by casting a negative vote about that person (judge, congressman, etc.), mostly so that someone else might occupy the same position. * /Congressman Smith was voted out last November in favor of Congresswoman Bradley./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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