Elections Vocabulary

A person running for a political office

• Candidate

• Nominate

• Suffrage

• Elector

A person who votes in the Electoral College

• Candidate

• Suffrage

• Elector

• Precinct

The election that occurs in November, nationally if it's a Presidential election

• Primary election

• General election

• Popular vote

• Polling

The vote of the people

• Elector

• Popular vote

• General vote

• Primary vote

The place where you go to vote

• Platform

• School

• Precincts

• Elector

This is a candidate's or the political party's view/beliefs on an issue

• Platform

• Suffrage

• Elector

• Primary

To put someone up to run for an office

• Candidate

• Nominate

• Primary election

• Suffrage

Political system in which the electorate gives its votes largely to only two major parties and in which one or the other party can win a majority in the legislature

• Political parties

• Two-party system

• Primary election

• General election

The election that occurs in the spring to narrow the field of candidates

• General election

• Suffrage

• Primary election

• Run-off

To have the right to vote

• Elector

• Popular vote

• Suffrage

• Platform