Considerations from one judging votes seeing leader removed (11)

I believe the answer is:

reflections

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'considerations' is the definition.
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'one judging votes seeing leader removed' is the wordplay.
'one judging' becomes 'ref' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'votes' becomes 'elections' (election is a kind of vote).
'seeing leader removed' means to remove the first letter.
'elections' with its initial letter taken off is 'lections'.
'ref'+'lections'='REFLECTIONS'

'from' is the link.

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