swing 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

   Synonymsfloating voter

   Broadervoter

Questions about swing voter

What does swing voter mean?

swing 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 swing voter?

Close synonyms include floating 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 swing voter a common word?

swing 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.