election campaigns
Candidates seeking votes
Election campaigns are the organized efforts by candidates and political parties to win votes before an election.
A campaign typically involves rallies, advertisements, debates, fundraising, and voter outreach: The election campaign lasted eighteen months.
Campaign can function as a verb: She campaigned tirelessly in swing states.
The term extends to any sustained effort to achieve a political goal, whether or not an election is involved.
- votingFormally registering a choice
- candidatesThose seeking selection
- political partiesOrganized electoral coalitions
- attack adsNegative campaign commercials
- voter turnoutShare of eligible citizens voting
canvassing · door knocking · grassroots movements · yard signs · ballot · town hall meeting · nomination · polls · debate · constituency · gerrymandering · stump speech · baby kissing · swing voters · suffrage movement · primary · Super Tuesday · platforms
- electionsballot, ballots, voter registration, candidates, polls
- South Indian Politicschief minister, state assembly, Stalin, coalition politics, political dynasties
- Weimar politicscoalition governments, emergency powers, political instability, chancellorship, Hitler
- Congress PartyINC, hand symbol, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, chief ministers
election campaignsgovernance
How authority is exercised
governing · incumbency · administration · ruling · legislative sessions
election campaignsmilitary coups
Forcible government seizures
coup d'état · coups · armed takeover · violent overthrow · putsch
election campaignspolitical apathy
Indifference to governance
non-participation · disenfranchisement · silent majority · staying home · tuning out
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