Partisan realignment
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A partisan realignment (often just realignment) is a durable shift in a political system's configuration of voters' partisan identifications and political parties' vote shares. Some realignments occur fairly suddenly as a result of a single realigning election; other, secular realignments occur gradually over the course of several election cycles.