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How to use electorate in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Electorate means the collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote. Example: “The votes have been counted and the electorate has spoken.”

Examples of electorate by meaning

nounThe collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote.

  • The votes have been counted and the electorate has spoken.
  • Incoming governments normally announce that they will seek to serve the whole electorate.2019 August 10, Gordon Brown, “The very idea of a United Kingdom is being torn apart by toxic nationalism”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The...

nounA geographical area represented by one or more elected officials; a constituency, an electoral district.

  • The electorate of Finchley borders on the electorate of Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh, splitting the new housing estate of Royal Cupolas.

More sentences with electorate

  • His latest speech panders to the worst instincts of the electorate.From the entry pander
  • The electorate was in an unforgiving mood.From the entry unforgiving
  • The heart and soul of any democracy is its electorate.From the entry heart and soul
  • What distinguishes the core of the rightwing populist electorate is its gullibility to idiocy-promoting rhetoric against climate science.2017 February 20, Paul Mason, “Climate scepticism is a far-right badge of honour – even in sweltering Australia”, in the Guardian. From the entry gullibility
  • That is, that we despair of the electorate and present policies not to win government, but to indulge ourselves.1978, Commonwealth Record (Australia) - Volume 3, Issues 1-25, page 104. From the entry self indulgence
  • With a third of the country's electorate, the capital is "difficult terrain" for Allendism, according to the experts working on his campaign.2022, Adolfo Gilly, Paths of Revolution: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry Allendism
  • He was convinced that his more measured, if ploddingly serious, style would win out with an electorate tired of Sarkozy's bling and frenetic policy initiatives.2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian. From the entry bling
  • Helped by massive tax increases piled on to the electorate by the Tories in their first post-election budget, we slowly began to win the battle.2011, Philip Gould, The Unfinished Revolution: How New Labour Changed British Politics. From the entry tories
  • However, ministers argue they are delivering the Brexit demanded by the electorate – and say it is time for businesses to wean themselves off cheap migrant labour.2020 February 18, “UK to close door to non-English speakers and unskilled workers”, in The Guardian. From the entry deliver
  • Some managers argue that technological advances empower them to send specific and highly personalized messages to particular segments of the electorate in more efficient ways than ever.2016, William J. Feltus, Kenneth M. Goldstein, Matthew Dallek, Inside Campaigns: Elections through the Eyes of Political Professionals, CQ…. From the entry microtargeting
  • The same steepled towns dangle from the sea's horizon, the Brueghel faces of our electorate are as pink with zeal as they were those three decades ago.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry steepled

Meaning of electorate

  1. noun The collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote.
  2. noun The office, or area of dominion, of an Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”); an electorship.
  3. noun A geographical area represented by one or more elected officials; a constituency, an electoral district.

Full definition of electorate

Questions about electorate in a sentence

How do you use electorate in a sentence?
Electorate is used as a noun. For example: “The votes have been counted and the electorate has spoken.”
What is a short sentence with electorate?
“The electorate was in an unforgiving mood.”
What does electorate mean?
Electorate means the collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote.

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