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  2. Split-ticket voting or ticket splitting is when a voter in an election votes for candidates from different political parties when multiple offices are being decided by a single election, as opposed to straight-ticket voting, where a voter chooses candidates from the same political party for every office up for election.

  3. Nov 9, 2022 · Nov. 9, 2022. For years they seemed to be an ever-more-endangered species, increasingly subsumed by the bitter tribalism that has come to define the nation’s politics. But on Tuesday,...

  4. Mar 1, 2009 · Why concentrate on ticket splitting? Our premise is that a complete theory of voting must take into account the fact that elections frequently call upon voters to make multiple decisions.

    • Barry C. Burden, Gretchen Helmke
    • 2009
  5. Feb 19, 2024 · But that doesn’t mean ticket splitting is no longer important. Pundits know in classic swing states it can provide the winning margin. And the good news for fans like me is that the 2022 midterms gave us some hope.

  6. Jul 11, 2019 · While only 6 percent of the state’s voters split their ticket between the Presidential race and U.S. House contests in 2016, close to 17 percent split parties between Presidential and contested Sheriff races. Why would voting in state and local races be different from national ones?

  7. May 13, 2021 · For the why, one answer lies in the ever-increasing polarization in U.S. politics. Ticket-splitting has been on the decline for decades, and people of opposite parties are demonizing each other, unwilling to give even an inch.

  8. Oct 1, 2022 · Ticket-splitters are back, and they’re playing a starring role in the chaotic 2022 campaign. In battleground states from Georgia to New Hampshire to Ohio, a potentially decisive slice of voters...