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straight ticket
noun
- a ballot on which all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
- a ticket on which all the candidates nominated by a party are members of the party.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of straight ticket1
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Idioms and Phrases
All the candidates of a single political party, as in Are you going to vote a straight ticket again? [Mid-1800s] Also see split ticket .Discover More
Example Sentences
Etling pointed out that straight-ticket voting for Republicans was up, but in county races, which aren't among the offices voters pick on a straight ticket, Democrats did well.
This is a tougher year, because a lot more people are just going to vote on straight tickets.
I therefore, and probably twenty-nine out of every thirty of those who voted in the borough, voted a 'straight ticket.'
It is pretty well understood, we believe, that the Bridgeport Irish, vote the "straight ticket."
Men from the low country: We cannot elect a straight ticket.
Ticket: to vote the straight ticket is to vote for all the men or measures your party wishes.
And I suppose you intend to vote the straight ticket right along?
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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