Midterm election

Type of election where the people can elect their representatives in the middle of the term of the executive or of another set of members

Apart from general elections and by-elections, a midterm election refers to a type of election where the people can elect their representatives and other subnational officeholders in the middle of the term of the executive. This is usually used to describe elections to a governmental body that are staggered so that the total number of offices of that body would not be up for election at the same time. Only a fraction of a body seats are up for election while others are not until the terms of the next set of members are to expire. The legislators may have the same or longer fixed term of office as the executive, which facilitates an election midterm of the tenure of the higher office.

Also known as...

midterm elections, mid-term election, and mid-term elections

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