# Elasticsearch manual election

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-manual-election/163802>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 10, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-manual-election/163802 "2019-01-10T20:32:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-manual-election/163802/1 "2019-01-10T20:32:15Z")

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My cluster has 5 master eligible nodes.

Is there a way to manually elect different master node from rest of master eligible nodes in cluster, by stopping master node, elasticsearch will automatically elects master node, but there is that blimp where rest of nodes thought it's one node, but now they know that node is down and now there is another master node now. I'm trying to see if there is a way to do it more gracefully.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-manual-election/163802/2 "2019-01-10T20:34:22Z")

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There's no way to manually request a re-election, it's all automatic based on the availability of the current elected master.

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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-manual-election/163802/3 "2019-01-10T20:45:02Z")

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Okay, that's what I thought, but I thought I'd double check)

Thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-manual-election/163802/4 "2019-02-07T20:45:03Z")

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