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Definition of Split ticket
1. Noun. A ballot cast by a voter who votes for candidates from more than one party.
Definition of Split ticket
1. Noun. (American English) A ballot cast for candidates of more than one political party. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Split Ticket
Literary usage of Split ticket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the New York Laws Relating to Elections by John Godfrey Saxe (1913)
"How TO VOTE A split ticket A voter may vote a split ticket, that is, for candidates
of different parties, in either of two ways. He may make a cross mark in ..."
2. The Direct Primary in New Jersey by Ralph Simpson Boots (1917)
"Of the primary voters 75 voted a split ticket and 122 a straight ticket, ...
Of those who did not vote at the primary, 26 voted a split ticket and 23 a ..."
3. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"Split-Ticket. When two or more important offices are to be filled at the same time,
... This is called a split ticket, also a scratch ticket. ..."
4. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"... is a split ticket, while a man voting for some candidates of his own party
and for one or more of his opponents, would deposit what is known,as a mixed ..."
5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"A cross placed upon a ballot outside the voting space In which the voter Is
required by statute to place such cross In order to vote a split ticket Is not a ..."
6. The Code of Alabama: Adopted by Act of the Legislature of Alabama; Approved by Alabama, James Jefferson Mayfield (1907)
"To vote a split ticket. 396. Polls; how long open. 385. When straight ticket does
not contain name of all officers. 386. To vote for person whose name is ..."
7. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1859)
"SPLIT-TICKET. When two or more important offices are to be filled at the same
time, the wire-pullers of each party select the men they wish their party to ..."
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