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electorate

[ih-lek-ter-it] / ɪˈlɛk tər ɪt /


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Results put Opportunity winning over five percent -- the threshold needed to gain seats in parliament without an electorate candidate win, which would likely secure the party a kingmaker role in the next government.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

He appears to have energized Black voters furious over a Supreme Court decision that could let Republicans eliminate Mississippi’s only majority-Black congressional district while also winning over about a quarter of the white electorate.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

NEW ORLEANS—Lying on a couch in 1992, a phone to his ear, James Carville uttered a line about the U.S. electorate that has followed him to this day: “It’s the economy, stupid.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

The electorate is volatile, said Sonoma State University political science professor David McCuan, and there are always wild cards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 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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