A person who votes in the presidential election but does not vote for a congressional candidate in the same election is known as an independent voter. Another name for an independent voter is unaffiliated voter.
a "nonvoting voter"
split ticket voter
The residents of DC fit this description. They vote for the president but do not have a voting representative in Congress.
an independent voter
Those are commonly known as mid-term elections.
The vice presidential candidate is often referred to as the running mate of the presidential candidate during the campaign.
In the US the elections are called primaries as they are the first step to the election of the final candidate. In the presidential elections Barack Obama first had to beat Hillary Clinton among others before facing John McCain who had beaten other candidates from the Republican party.
Votes cast by individual voters in the presidential election are their way of expressing their choice for the candidate they want to see become the next president. Each voter has the opportunity to select their preferred candidate by marking their ballot on Election Day or submitting it through mail-in or early voting methods. These individual votes are then tallied and used to determine the winner of the election.
Presidential Candidate
Primary Election
it is called a general election unless we are voting for a president then it is called a presidential election
They are called the party's presidential ticket. Also the party's presidential nominees.
Primary elections or primaries is what these elections are called.
A midterm election
The word "secede" seems strange here. People say a candidate withdrew or dropped out of the race, if he stopped seeking the nomination.
In the US, candidates for the presidential election are called "conventions". This is a group of delegates from each state that votes on the candidate that will represent their respective party;s nominee. Normally, a convention will renominate a sitting president to be the candidate for the upcoming presidential election, provided that this individual has not been president for the preceding eight years.