downballot

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downballot (comparative more downballot, superlative most downballot)

  1. Alternative form of down-ballot
    • 2000, Roy R. Barkley, Mark F. Odintz, The Portable Handbook of Texas, →ISBN, page 99:
      White won with 54 percent of the vote, and the Republicans failed to gain any downballot statewide offices.
    • 2003, Kimberly Love Nalder, Democracy and the electoral consequences of term limits:
      There is some evidence, however, that downballot races can influence turnout.
    • 2009, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, Lessons learned from the 2004 presidential election, page 302:
      Is there any precedent in Ohio for a downballot candidate receiving on a percentage or absolute basis so many more votes than the Presidential candidate of the same party in this or any other presidential election?
    • 2017, Amnon Cavari, Richard J. Powell, Kenneth R. Mayer, The 2016 Presidential Election, →ISBN:
      There is a substantial political science literature on the effects of presidential campaigns on downballot races.