Editing Election promise (section)

{{Short description|Promise or guarantee made by a candidate}}
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{{Political campaigning}}

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]].

Across the Western world, political parties aren't highly likely to fulfill their election promises.<ref name="Thomson 527–542">{{Cite journal|last1=Thomson|first1=Robert|last2=Royed|first2=Terry|last3=Naurin|first3=Elin|last4=Artés|first4=Joaquín|last5=Costello|first5=Rory|last6=Ennser-Jedenastik|first6=Laurenz|last7=Ferguson|first7=Mark|last8=Kostadinova|first8=Petia|last9=Moury|first9=Catherine|date=2017-07-01|title=The Fulfillment of Parties' Election Pledges: A Comparative Study on the Impact of Power Sharing|journal=American Journal of Political Science|language=en|volume=61|issue=3|pages=527–542|doi=10.1111/ajps.12313|issn=1540-5907|url=https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/59403/1/Thomson_etal_AJPS_2016_The_fulfillment_of_parties_election_pledges.pdf|doi-access=free}}</ref> 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 [[Member of Congress|congresspeople]] voted in line with their respective party platforms 74% and 89% of the time, respectively.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/2016/7/12/12060358/political-science-of-platforms|title=We asked 8 political scientists if party platforms matter. Here's what we learned.|last=Stein|first=Jeff|date=2016-07-12|website=Vox|access-date=2016-07-19}}</ref>