Conservative Party
Republican Party took the 2004 election, with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney being reelected.
Direct primary is the election in which party members select people to run in the general election.
Direct primary
known as a primary election or a party primary. In this type of election, party members choose their preferred candidate from a field of candidates who are running for the same party nomination. The winner of the primary election then becomes the official candidate for the party in the general election.
If you vote in a primary election, you have to designate a Party. In a General Election, you vote for anybody on the ballot.
they can potentially be won by either major-party candidate
The Conservative party under Ted Heath unexpectedly won the 1970 general election.
A primary election occurs before the general election, and is used to choose the nominee for the major political parties. Once a person wins the total votes necessary for nomination, they will be nominated at the party's National Convention.
Yes; party registration has no relationship to how you vote in a general election. In a general election, you can vote for whoever you want, no matter what your party registration.
The first general election was held in Jamaica in 1945 and was won by the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) party led by Alexander Bustamente
People vote for a political party e.g. Labour and they're then counted and the head of the party that wins is prime minister
Yes. In the general election, you can vote for whoever you like regardless of what party you are affiliated or registered with. Yes. In many (but not all) states, party affiliation affects what primaries you can vote in. But it does not force you to vote for that party's candidates in the general election.