down-ballot
English
Etymology
From the organization of most electoral ballots, which list electoral offices in descending order of the amount of power wielded by the officeholder.
Adjective
down-ballot (comparative more down-ballot, superlative most down-ballot)
- Pertaining to the election of a relatively minor officeholder.
- 2012, Howie Carr, Hard Knocks, →ISBN:
- Just as I stepped out of the shower, I got a call from a state senator who was planning to run for a down-ballot statewide office against the mayor of a suburban city.
- 2013, George Hawley, Voting and Migration Patterns in the U.S., →ISBN:
- In 2012, Coleman again secured his reelection with more than 90 percent of the vote, and Democratic candidates in his district secured a greater share of the mean precinct down-ballot vote in 2012 than in 2000.
- 2015, John S Klemanski, David A. Dulio, Michael Switalski, Campaigns from the Ground Up, →ISBN:
- In down-ballot races, television advertising is rare.
- 2016, Daniel Kreiss, Prototype Politics, →ISBN:
- One task of these developers at the party was to create tools for state parties and down-ballot candidates built from this data architecture.
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