Primary Party (NovaNet)
Primary (Apex)
Election campaigns and other political processes in which candidates, not political parties, have most of the initiative and influence.
primary election
The sounds like a primary election.
The Know Nothing party
non-partisan election
campaign
Democratic-Republican
Straight Party voting is voting for the candidate of a certain political party for every office on an election ballot that has a candidate of that party.
That is an election held by a political party as part of the process of nominating a candidate to represent the party in the presidential election.
Democratic Party candidate James Buchanan won the 1856 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate John Fremont and American Party candidate Millard Fillmore.
It's a political party
B.Primary election