Across
- 2. a primary election in which voters are not required to declare party affiliation
- 5. People may vote in a party's primary only if they are registered members of that party prior to election day. Independents cannot participate
- 7. Organization of citizens with similar views that work to put ideas in government
- 9. Electoral district from which one person is chosen by the voters for each elected office
- 10. a process of voting, in writing and typically in secret
- 12. A unit into which cities are often divided for the election of city council members
- 17. Agreement between two political parties to work in government
- 18. The smallest unit of election administration; a voting district
- 22. Parties that have split away from one of the major parties
- 25. (in some US states) a meeting at which local members of a political party register their preference among candidates running for office or select delegates to attend a convention
- 26. In an election, the number of votes that the leading candidate obtains over the next highest candidate
- 27. a regular election of candidates for office, as opposed to a primary election
- 28. The coattail effect or down-ballot effect is the tendency for a popular political party leader to attract votes for other candidates of the same party in an election
- 29. The blanket primary is a system used for selecting political party candidates in a primary election, used in Argentina and historically in the United States
- 30. Parties that concentrate on only one public policy matter
Down
- 1. Parties rooted in poor economic times, lacking a clear ideological base, dissatisfied with current conditions and demanding better times
- 3. The political arms of an interest group that collects voluntary contributions from members to fund political candidates and parties the interest group favors.
- 4. A political system with two parties
- 6. Parties based on a particular set of beliefs, a comprehensive view of social, economic, and political matters
- 8. An election in which voters choose candidates to run on a party's ticket in a subsequent election for public office
- 11. One of the political parties not widely supported
- 13. in which a candidate with the most votes wins, is the most common form of voting in the U.S
- 14. A political system with two parties
- 15. the action of nominating or state of being nominated
- 16. A society which consists of several distinct cultures and groups
- 19. General agreement among various groups on fundamental matters; broad agreement on public questions
- 20. Voting for candidates of different parties for different offices at the same election
- 21. Where people can go and vote for their president
- 23. All of the people entitled to vote in a given election
- 24. A system in which several major and many lesser parties exist, seriously compete for, and actually win, public offices