coattails effect

Noun
  1. (politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party (synset 111433107)
    "he counted on the coattails effect to win him the election"
    referred to in: government, political science, politics - the study of government of states and other political units
    is a type of: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot - a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

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