Ticket (election)
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A ticket has two meanings in elections to councils or legislative bodies.
First, it may refer to a single
Parliament run on the same "ticket", because they are elected together on a single ballot question — as a vote for a given party-list
in the Parliamentary election counts as a vote for the party's corresponding presidential candidate — rather than separately.
A ticket can also refer to a
U.S. states) is voting for the entire party ticket, including every office for which the party has a candidate running.[1] Particularly in the era of mechanical voting machines, it was possible to accomplish this in many jurisdictions by the use of a "party lever" which automatically cast a vote for each member of the party by the activation of a single lever. "Ticket splitters" are people who vote for candidates from more than one political party
when they vote for public offices, voting on the basis of individual personalities and records instead of on the basis of party loyalties.
While a ticket usually does refer to a political party, they are not legally the same. In rare cases, members of a political party can run against their party's official candidate by running with a rival party's ticket label or creating a new ticket under an independent or ad hoc party label depending on the jurisdiction's election laws. Depending on the party's rules, these rogue members may retain the membership of their original party. Thus two individuals from one political party can oppose each other under different tickets. This was the case for
2004
, Soong ran as Lien's running mate.
Political party factions may also sponsor tickets in
tantamount to election
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References
- ^ "Straight-Ticket Voting" National Conference of State Legislatures. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
- ^ "Voting and Electioneering, 1789–1899". americanhistory.si.edu. 2017-05-11. Retrieved 2023-12-26.