Election Related Vocabulary

What is a campaign?

• a series of activities designed to help win an election

• when a candidate becomes a president

• when the Congress votes on a law

What is a candidate?

• someone who votes

• someone who is trying to be elected to office

• another word for campaign

What is a citizen?

• a persons who travels all around the world

• a person who is visiting a country

• a person who has the rights and protections from a country

What does it mean to concede?

• to admit you lost

• to declare you win

• to veto a bill

What is Congress?

• the president and their cabinet

• the group of people in the court who review laws

• the group of people who make laws

What is a democracy?

• a kind of government where voting is illegal

• a kind of government where citizens choose leaders by voting

• a kind of government that is run by a royal family

What does it mean to elect?

• to review whether or not you've broken the law

• to create a set of laws for the country

• to choose someone to represent you by voting

What is a polling place?

• a place where people go to vote

• a place where the president holds meetings

• a place where candidates debate issues

What is a press conference?

• a meeting between the president and his cabinet

• a meeting where people answer questions from reporters

• when the judicial branch hosts a court case

What is a representative?

• someone who decides to run for president

• a person who loses an election and is kicked out of office

• a person chosen in an election to hold office