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Straight ticket   /streɪt tˈɪkət/   Listen
Straight ticket

noun
1.
A ballot cast by a voter who votes for all the candidates of one party.  Antonym: split ticket.






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"Straight ticket" Quotes from Famous Books



... election, poll, ballot, vote, referendum, recall, initiative, voice, suffrage, plumper, cumulative vote, plebiscitum [Lat.], plebiscite, vox populi; electioneering; voting &c v.; elective franchise; straight ticket [U.S.]; opinion poll, popularity poll. issue; opinion, stand, position; program, platform; party line. [ideologies] democracy, republicanism; communism, statism, state socialism; socialism; conservatism, toryism; liberalism, whigism; theocracy; constitutional monarchy. [political ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... thoroughly reputable person. But I could not give the time necessary for forming a real opinion on fifteen candidates, who volunteered no information about themselves. I therefore, and probably twenty-nine out of every thirty of those who voted in the borough, voted a 'straight ticket.' If for any reason the party committee put, to use an Americanism, a 'yellow dog' among the list of names, I ...
— Human Nature In Politics - Third Edition • Graham Wallas



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