Electorate is an English word with synonyms like citizenry or people. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Electorate meaning
- The collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote.
- The office, or area of dominion, of an Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”); an electorship.
- A geographical area represented by one or more elected officials; a constituency, an electoral district.
Using Electorate
- The main meaning on this page is: The collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote. | The office, or area of dominion, of an Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”); an electorship. | A geographical area represented by one or more elected officials; a constituency, an electoral district.
- Useful related words include: citizenry, people.
- In the example corpus, electorate often appears in combinations such as: the electorate, electorate to, electorate and.
Context around Electorate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 15 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Electorate
- In this selection, "electorate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, twitter, real, nigerian, isn, backed and continues stand out and add context to how "electorate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a catholic electorate and one and a disengaged electorate can switch. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "electorate" sits close to words such as oval, preview and solved, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with electorate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
An article about our recent election in thethe Twitter electorate isn’t the real electorate”. (15 words)
All this means that the Southern electorate are extraordinarily ill-informed about the North (and particularly about unionism). (18 words)
As a Citizens Movement we give an opportunity to the electorate to hear what candidates are offering them. (18 words)
To the extent that real elections approach this upper bound, large elections would do so less so than small ones, because it's less likely that a large electorate has information about all the other voters than that a small electorate has. (42 words)
A section of the electorate whose contribution should not be neglected by the incoming administration is the senior citizens (pensioners) who have been suffering over the last eight years as a result of non-payment of their outstanding gratuities. (39 words)
At an election party at Helensburgh Tradies, Ms Stuart's supporters were jubilant as soon as result started to flow through, as she dominated across the electorate even in what they said were "the most staunchly Liberal booths". (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
For each electorate there is a conference–notionally above the branches–which coordinates campaigning in the electorate and regularly communicates with the member (or candidate) for the electorate.
Electorate after electorate has fallen victim to a string of self-serving narcissists prepared to exploit irrational fears, issue empty promises and bend, ignore or break the law in blatant pursuit of power and self-interest.
Ngubane said politicians carried the mandate of the electorate and could not be excluded from structures such as the JSC, arguing it would muzzle the voice of the electorate.
An article about our recent election in thethe Twitter electorate isn’t the real electorate”.
In “An Open Letter to the Nigerian Electorate on Your Inherent Obligations,” the group advised the electorate against electing people with questionable character into offices.
Sixteen of the operating separate school jurisdictions have a Catholic electorate, and one ( St. Albert ) has a Protestant electorate.
To the extent that real elections approach this upper bound, large elections would do so less so than small ones, because it's less likely that a large electorate has information about all the other voters than that a small electorate has.
A by-election will take place in Wellingborough after 13.2% of the electorate backed a petition to recall MP Peter Bone, North Northamptonshire Council has confirmed.
After all, elected officials are ultimately accountable to their constituents and a well-informed electorate can be a forceful motivator.
All this means that the Southern electorate are extraordinarily ill-informed about the North (and particularly about unionism).
All too often in politics, a comet can burn itself into a falling star – although every prediction of Trump’s demise (at least among the GOP electorate) has proven to be wishful thinking by his enemies.
A man of large ambitions – one memo quoted in the Independent Commission Against Corruption report released this week outlines Darryl’s vision for the clubhouse upgrade to the Australian Clay Target Association in his electorate.
A new survey has shown that the electorate continues to mistrust their members of Parliament (MPs) in a number of areas.
Another panellist, Grace Josiah, Founder, Governance for All Initiative, called for massive sensitisation of electorate against vote buying in future elections to elect credible candidates.
APVoteCast, an extensive national survey of the electorate, also found that support for Republican candidates ticked up slightly among Black voters during last year’s elections, even though those voters overwhelmingly supported Democrats.
AP VoteCast, a sweeping survey of the 2020 electorate, found that about 6 in 10 self-identified union members supported Biden, a margin that outpaced Trump but was not commanding.
As a Citizens Movement we give an opportunity to the electorate to hear what candidates are offering them.
As both campaigns enter the home stretch to polling day, they will hope a disengaged electorate can switch on long enough to buy their sales pitch for government.
A section of the electorate whose contribution should not be neglected by the incoming administration is the senior citizens (pensioners) who have been suffering over the last eight years as a result of non-payment of their outstanding gratuities.
At an election party at Helensburgh Tradies, Ms Stuart's supporters were jubilant as soon as result started to flow through, as she dominated across the electorate even in what they said were "the most staunchly Liberal booths".
Common combinations with electorate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the electorate 120×
- electorate to 11×
- electorate and 10×
- electorate in 7×
- electorate has 6×
- electorate of 6×
- electorate as 5×
- american electorate 5×
- electorate for 4×
- electorate that 4×