#3: Empleomania

Definition:

: a mania for holding public office

About the Word:

One might very well make the argument that any person who chooses to subject themselves to the myriad indignities of fund-raising, going door to door to meet constituents, and offering their name for an elected office suffers from a form of empleomania. However, this word tends to be used for people who really, really, really want to be elected. Empleomania is borrowed directly from a Spanish word, which is a combination of empleo (employment or public office) and –mania.

Example:

"A strong effort should be made to extirpate the empleomania, the eternal place-hunting, which is the bane of Spain." — The Times (London), 3 Aug. 1854