Primary election: Difference between revisions

Partisan primary elections tend to result in a [[center squeeze effect]]; a candidate liked by all voters can theoretically be eliminated from contention because more partisan voters prefer candidates closer to their views, to the detriment of more centrist nonpartisan voters who don't vote in primaries. This is a major reason why the "[[W:Unified primary|unified primary]]" ([[Approval voting]] + [[runoff]]) was advocated; it was argued that centrist candidates would have a better chance of avoiding elimination if partisans could support both their favorite candidates and the compromise candidates because of the Approval feature, rather than only choosing one, as in [[FPTP]].