Across
- 2. general agreement among various groups
- 4. officeholder
- 9. district from which one person is chosen by the voters for each elected office
- 12. largest number of votes cast for the office
Down
- 1. people eligible to vote
- 3. of political views
- 4. based on a particular set of beliefs
- 5. action based on firm alligiance to a polital party
- 6. of persons who seek to control government through the winning of elections and the holding of public office
- 7. groups
- 8. by two parties
- 9. practice of awarding public office, contracts, and other governmental favors to those who supported the party in power
- 10. narrow-minded concern for, or devotion to, the interests of one section of a country
- 11. temporary alliance of several groups who come together to form a working majority and so to control a government