electorate

Example Sentences

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But of the biggest, highest priority projects DC should be taking on, you should tell the electorate, “Here’s what we’re going to get done over the next two years.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

About one in five members of the Scottish electorate are registered for a postal vote, meaning they had the chance to cast their ballot ahead of polling day.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Campaigns that use “red-boxing” will post on their websites information supposedly aimed at voters, but the messages are often in language that is not typically used to communicate with the electorate.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

There were dozens of caucus rooms across Detroit’s Huntington Place—rural, women, Black, educators, LGBT—each with its own electorate and set expectations.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026

Assume that one-third of the electorate prefers Dukakis to Gore to Jackson, that another one-third prefers Gore to Jackson to Dukakis, and that the last one-third prefers Jackson to Dukakis to Gore.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos