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Party seeking Independence Day to wrap up a kind of election (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

snap

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'kind of election' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'party seeking independence day to wrap up a' is the wordplay.
'party seeking independence day' becomes 'snp' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to wrap up' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'snp' going around 'a' is 'SNAP'.

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(Other definitions for snap that I've seen before include "type of election" , "Photograph - without warning" , "Cut" , "Simple card-game" , "Speak irritably; photo" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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