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general election |
election in which voters cast ballots for House members, senators, and a president and vice president |
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redistricting |
redrawing the geographic boundaries of legislative district |
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apportionment |
the process of assigning the 435 seats in the house to the states based on an increases or decreases in state population |
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gerrymandering |
attempting to use the process of redrawing district boundaries to benefit a political party |
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open primary |
primary election in which any registered voter can participate in the contest regardless of party affiliation |
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closed primary |
primary election in which only registered members of particular political party can vote |
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incumbent gerrymandering |
lines are drawn to benefit the current group of incumbents |
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racial gerrymandering |
redistricting is used to help or hurt the chances of minority legislative candidates |
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partisan gerrymandering |
elected officials from one party draw district lines that benefit candidates from their party and hurt candidates from their other parties |
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open seat |
elected position for which there is no incumbent |
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voter cue |
voters use incumbency, partisanship, personal connection to candidate, etc to help decide their vote |
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plurality voting |
whoever gets the most votes wins; used in Senate and the House |
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majority voting |
candidate needs more than 50% of the votes to win |
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run off election |
under a majority voting system, a second election is held only if no candidate wins a majority of the votes in the first general election |
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proportional allocation |
the practice of determining the number of convention delegates allotted to each candidate based on the percentage of the population vote cast for each candidate |
