Ticket (election)

The term ticket can mean different things in relation to elections of councils or legislative bodies.

First, it may refer to a single election choice which fills more than one political office or seat.

For example, in Guyana, the candidates for President and Parliament run on the same "ticket", because they are elected together on a single ballot question — as a vote for a given party-list in the Parliamentary election counts as a vote for the party's corresponding presidential candidate — rather than separately.

[2] When that occurs, several candidates, usually one for each office for which the party's nomination is being contested in the primary, endorse one another and may make joint appearances and share advertising with the goal of securing the party's nomination for the office each is seeking for all ticket members.

As well in Australia, the variant of STV used for the Commonwealth upper houses and state upper houses may allow voters to mark a preference for a "ticket" (party slate) and not have to mark preferences for individual candidates.

Republican Party ticket from 1865 gubernatorial election in Massachusetts. The Republican candidate, Alexander H. Bullock , defeated Democratic challenger Darius N. Couch .
Flyer for 2008 Democratic Party ticket in Monmouth County, New Jersey . Even though a "ticket" is no longer a physical reality in voting, parties still push the notion of voting for them in every race on the ballot.