nonpartisan

or non·par·ti·zan

[ non-pahr-tuh-zuhn ]

adjective

1. not partisan; objective.
2. not supporting or controlled by a political party, special interest group, or the like.

   Synonyms: disinterested

noun

1. a person who is nonpartisan.

nonpartisan

/ ˌnɒnpɑːtɪˈzæn /

adjective

1. not partisan or aligned, esp not affiliated to, influenced by, or supporting any one political party

Derived Forms

• ˌnonpartiˈsanˌship, noun

Other Words From

• non·parti·san·ship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of nonpartisan¹

First recorded in 1880–85; non- + partisan ¹

Example Sentences

For the thousands of local, mostly nonpartisan officials who administer elections, the most urgent need was money.

From Time

A joint statement released by Pepco and WIN says WIN, which was founded in 1996, is a “broad-based, multi-racial, multi-faith strictly nonpartisan, District-wide citizens’ power organization, rooted in local congregations and associations.”

From Washington Blade

It also offers some general recommendations, including a congressional commission on nonpartisan election reform.

From Vox

Haley Swenson is a writer and researcher and the deputy director of the Better Life Lab, a work, gender, and social policy program at the nonpartisan think tank New America.

From Washington Post

Just as journalists eventually developed a code of ethics, there is also a place for editorial standards in our online media landscape developed through independent, nonpartisan and transparent processes.

From Washington Post

And perhaps most enticingly, at least to employees I spoke with, the network would be staunchly nonpartisan.

From The Daily Beast

To be fair, there are nonpartisan, academic roots to the vision of the Cold War as a model of stability, not volatility.

From The Daily Beast

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has currently classified the Colorado Senate race as a tossup.

From The Daily Beast

“They need more watching than members of Congress,” says Bert Brandenburg, executive director of the nonpartisan Justice at Stake.

From The Daily Beast

For instance, in 2012, nonpartisan pollster Gallup whiffed and showed Romney ahead on Election Day nationwide.

From The Daily Beast

North Dakota blows down the Nonpartisan League and discovers that darned thing was loaded in both barrels.

From Project Gutenberg

Indignation at the defeat of the bill resulted in the birth, in February 1915, of a new political party, the Nonpartisan League.

From Project Gutenberg

A treatise on agricultural credit, wheat trade, and politics, with a chapter on the birth of the Nonpartisan League.

From Project Gutenberg

Some farmers objected to the Grange because it was a secret organization; others, because it was nonpartisan.

From Project Gutenberg

Since this is a nonpartisan article designed to promote good feeling it will probably be just as well not to go into this.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• independent
• neutral
• nonaligned
• unbiased
• uninvolved