swinging voter

British

noun

Also called (esp in Britain): floating voter. informal a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party

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Distinct from the more traditional swinging voter, authors Ron Booker and Eric Sidoti see these 18-24-year-old voters as permanently unaligned and developing "electoral habits of their own making".

From BBC • Aug. 31, 2013

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