primary election
Noun
Meaning
a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
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According to Barker, 525 absentee ballots were submitted in Douglas County during the primary election, compared to 70 in the 2018 primary.
Although Florida’s primary election is not until August, and the general election won’t follow until November, the state’s election supervisors are petitioning Gov. Ron DeSantis for relief from what they fear will be a severe shortage of poll workers.
America’s primary election system guarantees real consequences for any politician that takes on the extremists in their own party.
And Pennsylvania's board of elections saw tens of thousands of ballots arrived in the week after the June 2 primary election, many which were counted after an order from the governor.
APC primary will hold its Edo primary election on Monday, June 22, while PDP has scheduled its own for Tuesday, June 23.
A primary election Tuesday will determine who will take on Mucarsel-Powell, a freshman, in what is expected to be a competitive general election race.