Similar words: electoral college, elector, collector, the private sector, elect, hector, sector, select. Meaning: [-tərət] n. the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote.
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31) There's a growing impatience among the electorate with the old two-party system.
32) The Prime Minister assured the electorate taxes would not be increased after the election.
33) The electorate put the Tories in with an increased majority in 1983.
34) Turnout: 86 percent of total electorate of 5,600,000.
35) The taxes proved extremely unpopular with the electorate.
36) He has been accused of misleading the electorate.
37) But neither has captured the imagination of the electorate.
38) No constituency should be allowed to have an extraordinarily small electorate on the pretext that it comprises widely dispersed and isolated communities.
39) Moreover, the Labour Party does not seek a mandate for its policies from the Northern Ireland electorate.
40) On none of these issues does he seem to have received a clear mandate from the electorate.
41) But 26m voters, or 69 % of the electorate, abstained.
42) If they don't, they will find the attention of the electorate turning to fresh pastures anyway.
43) But during the Eighties, when materialism and malfeasance predominated, the electorate suffered guilt pains.
44) The electorate was expected to be weary of elections and possibly apathetic as well.
45) The second point, which requires a more lengthy discussion, concerns the changing social composition of the electorate.
46) But it has failed to deliver the real improvements the electorate want.
47) These responses were drawn from a random sample of the electorate.
48) There was, therefore, a vote of about one-third of the Derry electorate which was being deployed against the established parties.
49) This shows a decline from their levels of support in the 1980s, but hardly counts as a rejection by the electorate.
50) The majority of the electorate are only marginally politically conscious, and the personalisation of political issues and allegiances reflect this marginality.
51) Rather, the appeal has been one that is also relevant to wide sections of the electorate.
52) The election of Keir Hardie in 1892 owed more to historical contingency than to a heightened class consciousness among the electorate.
53) He can't even outsmart his own electorate, let alone us.
54) Our so-called democracy is a complete sham and an insult to the electorate.
55) But what his involvement in a criminal trial of political and business associates says to the electorate at large is another matter.
56) The parties are no longer the chief point of contact between the electorate and the politicians.
57) The electorate will buy what they're shown is right,(www.Sentencedict.com) though persuading them costs a lot of bucks.
58) Political parties compete to win elections by submitting distinct programmes from which the electorate can choose.
59) Their political leaders, horrified by the isolation to which the electorate had consigned the country, have rallied behind the treaty.
60) Nor will it do so in countries where genuine political democracy is firmly established and the electorate will no longer support the objectives.
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