Topple vs Unseat - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between topple and unseat

is that topple is to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something while unseat is to throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.

(toppl)

to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something

* The massed crowds toppled the statue of the former dictator

to totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so

* The pile of pennies began to topple

* English ergative verbs

(en verb)

To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.

Specifically, to deprive of the right to sit in a legislative body, as for fraud in election.