electorate
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The California electorate has typically favored experience over youth, and favored bland and boring over razzle and dazzle.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
Last month the party won its first lower house election battle in the seat of Farrer, a large inland agricultural and mining electorate in New South Wales, beating the traditional conservative parties.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
The responsibility of the electorate is "absolutely huge", said Tonge.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
The cost of holding by-elections varies according to the size of the electorate, the number of polling stations needed, the cost of sending out postal votes and polling cards and staffing.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
“On the day the electorate, as expected in polls, was voting in unprecedented numbers against bombing North Vietnam or otherwise escalating the war, we were working to set such a policy in motion,” Ellsberg recalled.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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