floating voter

1. 1.

   a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other

   Synonymsswing voter

   Broadervoter

Questions about floating voter

What does floating voter mean?

floating voter means "a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other".

What is another word for floating voter?

Close synonyms include swing voter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is floating voter a common word?

floating voter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.