Elections

Electoral Geography is the analysis of the methods, behavior, and results of elections in the context of geographic space and using geographical techniques.

A dominant-party system or one-party dominant system, is a system where there is "a category of parties/political organisations that have successively won election victories and whose future defeat cannot be envisaged or is unlikely for the foreseeable future.

Ostracism (Greek: ὀστρακισμός, ostrakismos) was a procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years.

Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative republic, or psephocracy) is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.

Campaign finance refers to all funds raised in order to promote candidates, political parties, or policies in elections, referendums, initiatives, party activities, and party organizations.

A caucus is a meeting of supporters or members of a specific political party or movement.

An electoral district (also known as a constituency, legislative district, riding, ward, division, electoral area or electorate) is a territorial subdivision for electing members to a legislative body.

In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries.

A multi-party system is a system in which multiple political parties across the political spectrum run for national election, and all have the capacity to gain control of government offices, separately or in coalition.

A political party platform or platform is a formal set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate, in order to appeal to the general public, for the ultimate purpose of garnering the general public's support and votes about complicated topics or issues.

A walkover or W.O.

Suffragettes were members of women's organisations in the late-19th and early-20th centuries which advocated the extension of the "franchise", or the right to vote in public elections, to women.

Political consulting is a form of management consulting that consists primarily of advising and assisting political campaigns.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU; French: Union Interparlementaire (UIP)) is a global inter-parliamentary institution established in 1889 by Frédéric Passy (France) and William Randal Cremer (United Kingdom).

An acclamation, in its most common sense, is a form of election that does not use a ballot.

Early voting (also called pre-poll voting or advance polling) is the process by which electors can vote prior to the scheduled election day.

An absentee ballot is a vote cast by someone who is unable or unwilling to attend the official polling station to which the voter is normally allocated.

Postal voting is voting in an election whereby ballot papers are distributed to electors or returned by post, in contrast to electors voting in person at a polling station or electronically via an electronic voting system.

Proxy voting is a form of voting whereby some members of a decision-making body may delegate their voting power to other members of the same body to vote in their absence, and/or to select additional representatives.

A legislative chamber or house is a deliberative assembly within a legislature which generally meets and votes separately from the legislature's other chambers.

Voter caging refers to challenging the registration status of voters and calling into question the legality of allowing them to vote.

Voter registration is the process in some democracies by which citizens and residents are registered in order to be authorized and allowed to vote in elections.