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A primary election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election. A general election is is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are up for election.'
Political parties use primary elections to determine who they will nominate to represent the parties in the general elections. In the general elections, voters choose from among candidates of various political parties their preferences to fill government offices.
governor's have TWO elections to get elected,primary AND general
Yes. There's no requirement that you vote for the same person in the primary and in the general election.
A primary, or primary election, is the election in which voters decide which of the candidates within a party will represent the party in the general election. So basically, when people vote on who will run for the democrats during the presidential election, it's a primary election. Voting on the actual president would be the general election.
These are called primaries or primary elections. Not all states have them.
A primary election is to select the candidates of a particular political party. They then go and debate at the General Election.
No, in an election year, primary elections are held in order to pick the party candidates for the general election which is held in November (Although primary often means most important, sometimes, as in this case, primary means first.)
If it's coming up in the fall, it's a general election. If it's coming up around spring time, it could be a primary, but it could also be a local general election.
Yes.
Direct primary is the election in which party members select people to run in the general election.
Before the general election is one or more primary elections, which narrows down a field of candidates.