precinct captain
Local party organizer
A precinct captain is a local party official responsible for organizing voters and turning out support within a specific voting district.
The role involves canvassing neighborhoods, distributing campaign materials, and mobilizing voters on election day.
In old-style machine politics, precinct captains wielded considerable influence through patronage and personal relationships: The precinct captain knew every family on the block.
- campaign managerLeads a candidate's operation
- voter registrationSigning up for elections
- canvassingSystematic direct voter outreach
- door knockingStriking an entrance repeatedly
- ballot countingTabulating election results
committeeman · ward · party loyalty · patronage · machine · local politics · poll worker · ward heeler · caucuses · coalition building · delegate · election monitoring · turnout · election day · primary elections · political strategist · ward boss · alderman
- policeofficer, cop, officers, patrol, cops
- campaigningcandidate, campaign signs, canvassing, campaign manager, fundraising
- Captainsskipper, Blackbeard, Ahab, Kirk, Nemo
- community leadersheadwoman, civic leader, community organizer, headman, council member
- Police Rankschief of police, police chief, police commissioner, sheriff, deputy chief
- political operativescampaign manager, strategist, political consultant, campaign aide, political advisor
precinct captainpolice chief
Law enforcement leader
commissioner · chief of police · patrol officer · beat cop · superintendent
precinct captainparty chairman
Head of political organization
unaffiliated voter · independent voter · governor · party boss · presidential candidate