swing state

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

swing state (plural swing states)

1. (US politics) A state which may vote Democratic or Republican, in a given election or generally.

   Synonyms: battleground state, purple state

Usage notes

This term does not refer to the elastic nature of a state's voters; a state that votes 72% for Republicans in one election cycle and 62% in the next is not a swing state, even though a ten percent shift is an enormous change in voting results by modern American standards.

Related terms

• swing district
• swing voter

 

Translations

a state which may vote Democratic or Republican

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 搖擺州／摇摆州 (zh) (yáobǎizhōu)

• Danish: svingstat c
• Finnish: vaa’ankieliosavaltio (fi)
• French: État-charnière (fr) m
• German: Swing State (de) m
• Hebrew: מדינה מתנדנדת f (m'diná mitnadnédet)
• Hungarian: billegő​/​kétesélyes​/​bizonytalan​/​ingadozó állam, csatatérállam, hintaállam
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vippestat (no) m

  Nynorsk: vippestat m

• Spanish: estado pendular m, estado bisagra m
• Swedish: vågmästarstat (sv) c
• Vietnamese: tiểu bang dao động (United States), bang dao động (Vietnam), tiểu bang chiến trường (United States), bang chiến trường (Vietnam)

See also

• blue state
• purple state
• red state