Words & TermsPolitics and public life
branch stacking
Manipulating political-party membership to influence preselections or internal votes.
In a sentence
The inquiry examined allegations of branch stacking before the preselection.
Where it came from
Australian political reporting and reference material use branch stacking as a stable political term with a distinct local institutional history.
- First recorded
- 1960s
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established