Noun
political vacuum (plural political vacuums)
A state of relative anarchy compared to neighboring states, often caused by death of the head of state before a successor could be designated.
This is not a confrontation between ‘left' and ‘right'. I am trying to represent the deep feelings of those many thousands of rank-and-file Tories in the country-and potential Conservative voters, too-who feel let down by our party and find themselves unrepresented in a political vacuum. Margaret Thatcher