Social:Voting bloc
Template:Globalise A voting bloc is a group of voters that are strongly motivated by a specific common concern or group of concerns to the point that such specific concerns tend to dominate their voting patterns, causing them to vote together in elections.[1] Frequently bloc's come from the same community or have the same interests. Voters in a bloc tend to vote in the same or similar ways. These Bloc's tend to band together to campaign for a common interest or major issue.[2] Blocs are used to allow a collection of voter to gain more leverage over elected officials by showing a significant portion of voters care about a major issue, allowing for a display of the ability of voters to maintain votes over specific issues from election to election.[3]
Religious Groups
Beliefnet identifies 12 main religious blocs in American politics, such as the "Religious Right", whose concerns are dominated by religious and sociocultural issues; and American Jews, who are identified as a "strong Democratic group" with liberal views on economics and social issues.[4] The result is that each of these groups votes en bloc in elections. Bloc voting in the United States is particularly cohesive among Orthodox Jews.[5][6]
Characteristics
Voting blocs can be defined by a host of other shared characteristics, including region, religion, age, gender, education level, race, and even musical taste.[7][8][9][10] Further factors may be defined based on weather the voters reside in an urban or rural area, a phenomenon known as the Urban-rural political divide.[11] Bloc's are also defined based on what generation they are from. Such generational Bloc's are typically categorized by how the majority of a generation cares about a major issue.[12]
See also
- Iglesia ni Cristo and Philippine elections
- Political alliance
- Political party
- Votebank
- Latino vote
- Ethnocultural politics in the United States
- Orthodox Jewish bloc voting
References
- ↑ "Definition of BLOC". 2 March 2024. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloc.
- ↑ Cooperman, Alicia Dailey (August 2024). "Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability" (in en). American Political Science Review 118 (3): 1222–1239. doi:10.1017/S0003055423000989. ISSN 0003-0554. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/bloc-voting-for-electoral-accountability/F38BFCA72DBA1C035668576393BCFF89.
- ↑ Cooperman, Alicia Dailey (August 2024). "Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability" (in en). American Political Science Review 118 (3): 1222–1239. doi:10.1017/S0003055423000989. ISSN 0003-0554. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/bloc-voting-for-electoral-accountability/F38BFCA72DBA1C035668576393BCFF89. Retrieved 2025-07-16.
- ↑ "The Twelve Tribes of American Politics". http://www.beliefnet.com/News/Politics/2004/10/The-Twelve-Tribes-Of-American-Politics.aspx.
- ↑ Cuza, Bobby (2022-11-04). "Orthodox Jewish vote could prove critical in governor's race". https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2022/11/04/orthodox-jewish-vote-could-prove-critical-in-governor-s-race.
- ↑ Heilman, Uriel (2016-04-12). "The Hasidic bloc vote, Bernie and Hillary's Empire State of mind and other NY campaign notes". https://www.jta.org/2016/04/12/politics/the-hasidic-bloc-vote-bernie-and-hillarys-new-york-state-of-mind-and-other-notes-from-the-ny-primary-campaign.
- ↑ Boone, Catherine; Wahman, Michael; Kyburz, Stephan; Linke, Andrew (2022). "Regional cleavages in African politics: Persistent electoral blocs and territorial oppositions". Political Geography (Elsevier BV) 99. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102741. ISSN 0962-6298. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/116385/3/1_s2.0_S096262982200155X_main.pdf. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
- ↑ Frey, William H. (2022-03-09). "Exit polls show both familiar and new voting blocs sealed Biden's win". https://www.brookings.edu/articles/2020-exit-polls-show-a-scrambling-of-democrats-and-republicans-traditional-bases/.
- ↑ Finn, Emily (2024-05-19). "Three presidential candidates court key voter blocs". https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/biden-trump-rfkjr-key-voter-blocs/.
- ↑ Sherman, Carter (2024-03-13). "The voting bloc that could decide the US election: Swifties". https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/13/taylor-swift-us-election-politics-joe-biden-donald-trump.
- ↑ Green, Hannah Hartig, Andrew Daniller, Scott Keeter and Ted Van (2023-07-12). "2. Voting patterns in the 2022 elections" (in en-US). https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/voting-patterns-in-the-2022-elections/.
- ↑ Fry, Richard (2017-07-31). "Gen Zers, Millennials and Gen Xers outvoted Boomers and older generations in 2016 election" (in en-US). https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/07/31/gen-zers-millennials-and-gen-xers-outvoted-boomers-and-older-generations-in-2016-election/.
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