coattails effect

English Thesaurus

1. (politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party (noun.phenomenon)

hypernym	:	consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot,
definition	:	a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon (noun.phenomenon)

domain category	:	government, political science, politics,
definition	:	the study of government of states and other political units (noun.cognition)