Election promise
Promise or guarantee made by a candidate / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An election promise or campaign promise is a promise or guarantee made to the public by a candidate or political party that is trying to win an election.
![]() | The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (December 2013) |
Across the Western world, political parties aren't highly likely to fulfill their election promises.[1] In the United States, platform positions offer important clues as to the policies that U.S. parties will enact. Over the past 30 years, Democratic and Republican congresspeople voted in line with their respective party platforms 74% and 89% of the time, respectively.[2]