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What is "primary election"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
primary election
noun
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▪ Nine of those will be chosen in a state-wide primary election on March 12, the traditional date for delegate selection.
▪ One of the contests on Tuesday was the primary election for Illinois's next governor.
▪ So, 18 months before the primary election, their being together was news.
Wiktionary
primary election

n. (context politics English) A preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.

WordNet
primary election

n. a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen [syn: primary]

Wikipedia
Primary election

A primary election is an election that narrows the field of candidates before an election for office. Primary elections are one means by which a political party or a political alliance nominates candidates for an upcoming general election or by-election.

Primaries are common in the United States, where their origins are traced to the progressive movement to take the power of candidate nomination from party leaders to the people.

Other methods of selecting candidates include caucuses, conventions, and nomination meetings.

Usage examples of "primary election".

Dowd told me that he expects Hoffa to barnstorm primary election states and deluge voters with anti-Kennedy sentiment, and I think this may play into our hands.

By the end of the day, I was able to relax a little and to ponder the primary election, in which my only opponent, the old turkey farmer Monroe Schwarzlose, got 31 percent of the vote, thirty times the vote he had received in the 1978 primary.