electorate

How To Use electorate In A Sentence

• This, along with all the arguments against ratification of the EU Constitution, is something which we need to ram home at this moment when our electorate is so alive to the notion that they are being cozened by Labour and the Liberal ‘Democrats’ about the true effect of this Treaty. Archive 2008-02-03
• We will therefore go back to the electorate to renew our mandate with confidence.
• Whoever wins government will have to depend on the support of independents, many of whom will have been elected with as little as 10 to 20 percent of the vote in their electorates.
• Then as now, a majority of the electorate disapproved of the incumbent's performance.
• But it is hard to imagine him miscalculating that it could be done in the teeth of active opposition from the other political parties, the electorate, and a somewhat sullen defence force.
• Such a renouncement would not trigger the Electoral Act and would not require a by-election to allow the electorate to review the MP's mandate to represent him or her.
• Their attempt to soften the electorate's impression of her as a scientific cold fish is one of the few amusing spectacles in a grim political landscape.
• Domestic issues are dominating in the hope the electorate have short memories and limited concentration.
• The new parliament's principal task would be to draft a constitution for approval by the electorate in a referendum.
• He and the other independent between them got 65 per cent of the vote as the electorate gave two fingers to party politics.