Nonpartisan

(noun)

In a nonpartisan system, no official political parties exist, sometimes reflecting legal restrictions on political parties. In nonpartisan elections, each candidate is eligible for office on his or her own merits.

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Examples of Nonpartisan in the following topics:

  • The Rise of Independents

    • In politics, an Independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party.
    • In politics, an independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party.

  • Political Parties

    • In a nonpartisan system, no official political parties exist, sometimes reflecting legal restrictions on political parties.
    • In nonpartisan elections, each candidate is eligible for office on his or her own merits.
    • Unless there are legal prohibitions against political parties, factions within nonpartisan systems often evolve into political parties.

  • Independent Agencies

    • However, executive agencies have to remain nonpartisan.

  • Bureaucratic Reform

    • They demanded nonpartisan scientific methods and credentials be used to select civil servants.

  • Political Parties from 1800–1824

    • President George Washington, while officially nonpartisan, generally supported the Federalists, and that party made Washington their iconic hero.

  • Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

    • Though the political action committee claimed that the film was fact-based and nonpartisan, the lower court found that the film had no purpose other than to discredit Clinton's candidacy for president.

  • State and Local Party Organization

    • Due to the results of the 2010 elections, Republicans took control of an additional 19 state legislative chambers, giving them majority control of both chambers in 25 states versus the Democrats' majority control of both chambers in only 16 states, with 8 states having split or inconclusive control of both chambers (not including Nebraska); previous to the 2010 elections, it was Democrats who controlled both chambers in 27 states versus the Republican party having total control in only 14 states, with eight states divided and Nebraska being nonpartisan.

  • Voting as Political Participation

    • Rock the Vote (RTV), a nonpartisan youth mobilization organization, established the first online voter registration initiative in 1992 with official backing from the Congressional Internet Caucus.