split ticket

1. A ballot cast for candidates of two or more political parties.

2. A ticket that includes the names of candidates from more than one party.

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split ticket

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) See split⁹ See also straight ticket

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split′ tick′et

a ballot on which not all votes have been cast for candidates of the same political party.

[1830–40, Amer.]

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Noun

split ticket - a ballot cast by a voter who votes for candidates from more than one party

balloting, vote, voting, ballot - a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative; "there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion"; "they allowed just one vote per person"

straight ticket - a ballot cast by a voter who votes for all the candidates of one party

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The result is much less "split ticket" voting, or people whose ballot includes votes for people of different parties.

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Other new features include a split ticket function, sales tax removal for visitors from states with no sales tax and a driver's license-scanning function to populate pertinent details for a wine club membership.

Tasting room point-of-sale systems: the latest generation of POS systems offer a wide range of functions across many winery departments to expedite and increase sales

Hollywood may or may not love movie versions of stage musicals: At the box office, it's currently a boffo "Chicago," a profitable "Phantom" and a questionable "Rent." For legit, however, there's no split ticket. The current Broadway productions of those three tuners all benefited from their film doppelgangers.

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The effect of the Australian ballot reform on split ticket voting: 1876-1908.

The Contemporary Presidency: The Presidential Election of 2000: A Great Civics Lesson?

For the KMT, on the other hand, a split ticket could mean disaster.

Presidential nomination race causes rifts in KMT, DPP

The degree of correspondence between the parties varies, but once again the analysis depicts a sizeable level of split ticket voting.

The local elections

The split ticket would also make the candidates themselves consider their choices more seriously; if a candidate doesn't select his running mate wisely, he runs the risk of riding into the White House shadowed by an unfriendly deputy.

Split decision

Booking exactly the same journey details with the split ticket company came out at PS30 and that did not include the tube fare between terminals in London which was included in the Virgin website quote.

Buyer beware on train tickets