A metric used in NBA basketball that is similar to Field Goal Percentage, but adds an additional parameter.
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) politics. a. the middle of a term of office, esp of a presidential term, when congressional and local elections are held. b. (as modifier): midterm elections.
Voter turnout regularly drops in midterm elections, and has done so since the 1840s. In 2008, for instance, 57.1% of the voting-age population cast ballots â the highest level in four decades â as Barack Obama became the first African American elected president.ut two years later only 36.9% voted in the midterm election that put the House back in Republican hands. For Obamaâs re-election in 2012, turnout rebounded to 53.7%.