A voting bloc is a group of
voters that are strongly motivated by a specific common concern or group of concerns to the point that such specific concerns tend to dominate their voting patterns, causing them to vote together in
election
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office.
Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operat ...
s. For example,
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identifies 12 main religious blocs in
American politics, such as the "
Religious Right", whose concerns are dominated by
religious and sociocultural issues; and
American Jews, who are identified as a "strong Democratic group" with
liberal views on economics and social issues.
The result is that each of these groups votes
en bloc in elections.
See also
*
Political alliance
*
Political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...
*
Votebank
References
Demographics
Identity politics
Bloc
Bloc may refer to:
Government and politics
* Political bloc, a coalition of political parties
* Trade bloc, a type of intergovernmental agreement
* Voting bloc, a group of voters voting together
Other uses
* Bloc (code school), an educational ...
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