major party

noun

: a political party having electoral strength sufficient to permit it to win control of a government usually with comparative regularity and when defeated to constitute the principal opposition to the party in power

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But those races were affected by candidates outside the two major parties, with Phil Lyman's write-in gubernatorial campaign absorbing votes on Cox's right, and a partisan free-for-all in the AG race. —

Erin Alberty, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024 The two major parties that support the ban will contest a federal election next year. —

Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024 Votes for minor party candidates prevented the two major parties from receiving a majority of the popular vote. —

Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024 Chisholm, who represented an area in Brooklyn that included Bedford–Stuyvesant for seven terms — from 1969 to 1983 — also became the first Black candidate to seek a presidential nomination from a major party in 1972. —

Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 19 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for major party