Chapter 21 - Parties and Elections in Texas

A local voting district

The local party official, elected in the party's primary election, who heads the precinct convetnion and serves on the party's county executive committee

The party group, made up of a party;s county chair and precinct chairs, that is respnsible for running a county's primary elections and planning county conventions

The county party official, who heads the county executive committee

The committee responsible for governing a party's activities throughout the state

The top two state-level leaders in the party

A meeting held by a political party to select delegates for the county convention and to submit resolutions to the party's state platform; precinct conventions, are held on the day of the party's primary election and are open to anyone who voted in the election

A meeting held by a political party following its precinct conventions, for the purpose of electing delegates to its state conventions

A party meeting held every two years for the purpose of nominating candidates for statewide office, adopting a platform and in presidential election years selecting delegates for the national convention and choosing presidential electors

Led by the Texas governor Allan Shivers during the 1950's, in which conservative Democrats in Texas supported Republican candidates for office because many of them believed that the national Democratic Party had become too liberal

Voting pattern in which conservatives vote Democratic for state offices, but Tepublican for presidential candidates

Elections held to select a party's candidate for the general election

Where a second primary election is held between two candidates who received the most votes in the first primary elections