How to Use electorate in a Sentence

electorate

noun
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  • That said, the share of the electorate that has settled on Trump has not grown at all.
    — Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In the GOP electorate, that vote has to be pretty small, right?
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But Trump still has this big segment of the electorate.
    — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • They are believed to be about 10 percent of the electorate.
    — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 7 May 2023
  • It can be used to sway teachers, courts, or electorates.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Mar. 2023
  • His use of Twitter to reach the electorate may not have been out of choice, however.
    — Elizabeth Wells, CNN, 13 May 2023
  • Still, a larger share of the electorate — 49% — view Biden in a negative light.
    — Mark Murray, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • These were the ingredients of a new middle class, which was to become the core electorate of the B.J.P.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And about one-third of the electorate – the firm Trump supporters − has already written him off.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
  • Then in 2019 the electorate voted in Nayib Bukele on a law-and-order platform.
    — Eduardo Gamarra, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2024
  • History tells us that a phony nose is as good a way as any to catch the attention of the electorate.
    — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
  • But about 26% of the electorate would be up for grabs between the two candidates, Wall Street Journal polling shows.
    — Kara Dapena, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Texas is a red state and there are more Republican voters in the electorate than Democrats.
    — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 10 May 2023
  • On May 7 of this year, the electorate chose the fifty delegates who will try again to write a new constitution.
    — Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
  • By contrast, 87% chose Biden, who has openly attributed much of his win to the power of the Black electorate.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But the suburban electorate includes a lot of very one-sided places on both sides.
    — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2023
  • The show offered a way out of the demoralizing trap of belonging to the electorate.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But this is also the man who discovered, lurking within the rot of the two-party system, a strange new shape in the electorate.
    — Willy Staley, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • This means that any poll sample is likely to have more of one voter type and less of others than the real electorate will have.
    — Henry Olsen, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Despite a jump in the polls after the first debate, Ramaswamy has not been able to win over a significant share of the electorate.
    — WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The problem here for Biden: That moment isn’t paying off with the American electorate.
    — Mark Murray, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • But the question is whether that will satisfy an electorate that voted the PTI as the largest party in parliament.
    — Ayesha Jalal, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2024
  • And in both states, only-Trump voters are outnumbered by the third of the electorate who aren't considering him at all.
    — Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • And while Biden has made recent attempts to argue that a second Trump term would be a threat to democracy, that isn't the main concern for much of the electorate.
    — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • For all the debate over broad demographic trends and shifts in the electorate, sometimes a swing voter is just a swing voter.
    — Ben Jacobs, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
  • With two weeks to go before the state’s March 5 primary, candidates are battling for a shrinking slice of the electorate.
    — David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
  • In both countries, a critical mass — though not the majority — of the electorate is skeptical of the West and open to the Russian perspective of the war.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Spending cuts are rarely popular with large enough of a segment of the electorate to create such a majority in the first place.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Texas has a booming population that Democrats hope is making the electorate more diverse and less red.
    — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 5 May 2023
  • Reflecting the high-stakes, nearly 73 percent of the electorate voted, the highest turnout in a Polish election since the end of communist rule.
    — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023

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