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Sentence Examples The entire political elite has become divorced from and hostile to the express wishes of the electorate they are supposed to represent. Yet, they have proved incapable of any serious effort to tone down their policies or even make them more palatable to the electorate. Henceforth, Palmerston found that he could control the electorate by this John Bull approach. For their own sake and that of the country, they would be well advised to concentrate on issues about which the electorate actually cares. Denmark has an intelligent, well-informed electorate whose hearts and minds are intrinsically pro-Europe. Nor does it bode well for Canada's economic advancement or political process, which thrives on a well-educated electorate. Only 32 percent of the electorate turned up at the polls, voting by a razor-thin margin to retain the existing law. So then, if the electorate is tending to think in and act on smaller and smaller messages, why not spread the word on T-shirts? Her new electorate would have been a tough battle for a National member, but it was potentially winnable. The first test of his leadership, when he will be held up to an hour of merciless scrutiny by the electorate, comes next Saturday. Her shop window, in the electorate of the Minister of Police, had been ram-raided by people wanting drugs, and they got them. In addition, all delegates are fully accountable to their electorate and are recallable if they do not carry out their electoral promises. We can share our success stories, maintain an informed electorate, and reconnect to our communities' heartfelt values. Ahern has been in government for almost five years and convincing the electorate to re-elect him will not be painless. Politicians need to re-engage with the electorate if talk of new politics is to be for real. Duncan Smith's uninspiring leadership and his lacklustre shadow cabinet failed to make any initial impact on the electorate. Democracy presupposes independent political parties and an electorate willing to debate issues and vote accordingly. By getting e-mail addresses of a representative sample of the electorate, we can invite 50,000 to 100,000 people to participate at once. The fall in the number of people voting has very little to do with inconvenience, apathy or laziness in the electorate. Vote-by-mail voters more closely mirror the electorate as a whole in all respects except age. Show More Sentences The colonies were not democracies and the governors were not responsible to an electorate. That is why all of us have a responsibility to treat the electorate as mature and responsible adults. Deafness and incomprehension, producing anomie and a reluctance to vote, are the default modes of the modern electorate. At the first election for a Legislative Assembly in 1856 he was returned for the electorate of Murrumbidgee. Just at the point when it can start to claim establishment credentials, it faces an anti-establishment mood among the electorate. His Vietnam service apart, his life story was insufficiently inspirational to excite the electorate. It is generally accepted that the electorate has shifted rightward in recent years. The electorate can apply to cast their vote at elections and the Government is now considering options to expand the scheme. The education of both officials and electorate has been another logistic hurdle. It is stupid to cast aspersions on either the intelligence of the electorate or the validity of the verdict. Harry Truman, who made the decision to use it, shared with the electorate the opinion that the bomb was a legitimate weapon. An increasingly educated electorate can spot bias with greater acumen and astuteness than ever before. It simply provides that someone who changes his or her status in that kind of way needs to go and get a fresh mandate from the electorate. Perhaps politicians should seek a new mandate from the electorate if they are unable to fulfil their promises. He lacks the freedom that a directly elected mayor gains from their direct relationship with the electorate and their clear mandate. Despite their mandate to serve their electorate, our representatives at the Commons are notoriously difficult to get hold of. We will therefore go back to the electorate to renew our mandate with confidence. Legal and political criteria such as electorate rights and tenurial status were no longer reliable markers of socio-economic status. As a proportion of the electorate, they have a mandate so feeble it would make many a local councillor blush. For how did one design party symbols, ballot papers and ballot boxes for a mostly unlettered electorate? Show More Sentences The electorate is changing, from blue-collar rural economy, to a sea change economy, dominated by retirees and eco-tourism. He will borrow money overseas to give away to the big polluters to compensate, but in the end the electorate will not have a bar of it. He wants five percent of the electorate, so he can qualify for matching funds next time around. The electorate votes on whether to secede from an existing nation and claim its independence for the entire world to see. Talk of renegotiations, third ways and so on is no more than mere election fodder for the grim-faced electorate of North Antrim and beyond. There exists within sections of the white electorate a deep cynicism towards the traditional political parties. Of course, the electorate are increasingly seeing through the lies and deceit of Labour. The meetings provide a medium for local councillors to raise the issues of their electorate on a more intimate basis with Council officials. Convince the electorate that membership is inevitable and it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. He was a politician who fatally lacked a grasp of the importance of having a narrative to inspire supporters and enthuse the electorate. They haven't communicated this to the electorate, but they believe profoundly in its justice as a meliorative measure of redistribution. So, what does the electorate do when it finds that their representatives are not behaving themselves? The city's electorate will be able to select candidates by text message, touch-tone telephone, the Internet and at free electronic kiosks. In my electorate, we have problems in the Huntly area, which are a consequence of the shafts in former coal mines. But in Ireland coalition crises come and go, and the electorate proves to have a short memory. Domestic issues are dominating in the hope the electorate have short memories and limited concentration. How did it happen that the press not only misread the mood of the electorate but got on the wrong side of it? With another two years before the next election they have to start the campaign now to win the confidence of a mistrustful electorate. Is he discovering Quebec sovereignty to be a surprise sleeper hit with the electorate of his riding? The aggressive triviality of the campaign is having a deadening effect on the electorate. Show More Sentences They may even encourage more than half of the electorate to turn out and vote four years from now. I sincerely hope that the democratic majority of the British electorate will do likewise. Recent surveys showed that a majority of the electorate opposed Japanese participation in the multinational force. No body of MPs is likely to vote against the view of the British electorate, even assuming it had the theoretical power to do so. If our government pursues an unpopular policy, it has to explain itself to the electorate. Pressing ahead with another referendum would be deeply unpopular with the electorate. If any candidate for our nation's highest office can't handle unrehearsed questions from the electorate, they have no business being there. This unsaid part was no less effectively conveyed to and assimilated by the targeted electorate. Has he sat in lessons across his electorate and come to the conclusion that we are all brainwashing children? All three mainline parties can count on solid bedrock support of some minimum percentage of the electorate. What is most disappointing is the lack of interest in this matter from the somnolent Australian electorate. Come next year the electorate will be browned off with both Kenny and Rabbitte moaning and will vote for the old reliables again. If they fail, the electorate in due course exacts its vengeance by throwing them out. People in the electorate can rarely find a doctor who continues to bulk bill. This was perceived by the mass of the electorate as a volte-face if not a betrayal of electoral promises. He and the other independent between them got 65 per cent of the vote as the electorate gave two fingers to party politics. This act, which redistributed the parliamentary seats and more than doubled the electorate, gave the vote to many working men in the towns. But tomorrow brings another election, where the stakes are high, the personalities are bigger than the issues, and the electorate is grumpy. But do the Party want to face this reshaped electorate with our reconfigured media with no other message but obstructionism? Unlike his opponent, the senator thinks statesmanship alone can't restore the faith of a betrayed electorate. Show More Sentences There is a high proportion of this electorate who are not persuaded of his leadership abilities. It is impossible to conjecture what might have happened, had the Governor-General failed to carry the electorate with him at this crisis. He uses jingoism as a blatant vote catcher, and much to disgrace of the Australian electorate, it's working. The Opposition must then have policies which, in the eyes of the electorate, are relevant to the day. By accepting the ceiling on total expenditures, the European Parliament would gain credibility with governments and the electorate. If the situation regarding accountability can be established, most of the electorate would be overjoyed. On every occasion they chose the less popular option, as if sending suicide notes to the electorate. The electorate perceives her cabinet as a bunch of liars who don't have the skills to even run a chook raffle. It is quite clear that the pro-Union electorate are switching off in droves, with each election indicating a downturn in registration and voting. That puts me in agreement with somewhere around half of the electorate in the US and a somewhat greater percentage of people world wide. Instead, as he shows with great perceptivity, it is the really motivated electorate that is taking to Web technologies with a vengeance. However inarticulately they express it, the British electorate do not believe that they are being offered something for nothing. Quite a number would not endear themselves to any electorate on fizzog alone. Then as now, a majority of the electorate disapproved of the incumbent's performance. There are risks that some mishap or injudicious remark by a minister might ignite a popular reaction from a volatile electorate. The need of the electorate was to reject and eject a corrupt administration, Labour being an inoffensive alternative. And therefore, one has either to ditch the condescending attitude to the electorate, or the social democracy. For sheer insolence and contempt for the electorate, her statement is hard to beat. There was a veritable rash of young white guys, running confusedly around the electorate brandishing postcards. He's entitled to represent any interest group in his electorate, as long as he does so overtly. Show More Sentences It is fundamental to our constitution that lawmakers are chosen by the electorate and accountable to the electorate for their decisions. Where once 20 per cent of the electorate were considered floating voters, now 80 per cent are. We the electorate now have a chance to pose questions and raise the political debate on this issue in the run up to the forthcoming election. Speaking exclusively to the Yorkshire Post, he said the electorate should look at whether politicians follow their own rules. Certainly the American electorate has forgiven the sins of those who tried to avoid the war. If they were forthcoming with information, they would have been able to get the electorate back on their side. If the electorate believes you have a credible candidate, you will get their vote. Large numbers of my electorate give generously and freely to community service. The electorate will come to its own judgement as to whether or not we all earn our corn. It has now become so much harder for a Tory leader to persuade a dubious electorate that his policies are practicable and viable. Weakly identifying partisans are also growing in proportion as an outcome of a dealigning electorate. Knowing the difference between assumption and deduction, and between presumption and proof, can alter one's outlook and transform an electorate. Now that shrill declamation is wearing decidedly thin with an electorate that is waking up to this overrated suburban solicitor. The two election defeats were put down to an inability to convince the electorate that they could be trusted with the nation's finances. He was such a nice lad at university, and there he was gleefully encouraging the undercover reporter girl to con the electorate. Now either he is seriously delusional, or else he considers the electorate to be a bunch of gullible fools. Furthermore it allows the electorate to participate more fully in national matters making politicians more experts in government than demagogues. Our system of democracy rests on the electorate being able to hold politicians accountable. Some councillors stand down, some are deselected and some are rejected by the electorate. The grande dame of newspaper columnists was recently complaining that the electorate were behaving like unprincipled, selfish consumers. Show More Sentences Two thirds of the electorate in Hackney did not vote in the council elections this year. I share Mr Clarke's concern that the opinion of the electorate counts for nothing in the eyes of the elected. Under the proportional system, electors get two votes, one for the electorate MP and one for their party preference. Yes, 70 percent of the electorate voted for a better life for all, including name changes. In early 1991, more than 90 per cent of the entire electorate voted to retain a union with Russia. Many hope that the majority of the electorate votes for more than a pretty face. But the rules changed and the electorate was entitled to vote by post without giving a reason. Although percentage of vote against electorate increased this year to 42, it was still low. Mr Trimble claimed the electorate had voted for political stalemate in last week's election. If the majority of the electorate vote no to the proposed amendment, this situation will remain unchanged. Chonde also appealed to the electorate to vote for credible candidates in this year's elections. It's also difficult for alternative candidates to persuade the electorate to vote for them. In some parts of the country this figure was lower still, with seven out of ten of the electorate opting not to vote. In 1979 some 61 percent of the entire potential electorate voted for either the Labour or the Tory party. We are more concerned in asking why 66 percent of the electorate did not vote. In some parts of the county this figure was lower still, with seven out of 10 of the electorate opting not to vote. If you have not received yours and you live in my electorate, give my office a ring. A regular visitor to the Lindsay electorate office and a campaign supporter of Jackie Kelly. I got a part time job at the Rongotai electorate office, getting the polling stations sorted out for the election. In our electorate office's shared bathroom, a guy nervously smokes a cigarette. Show More Sentences Furthermore my electorate office staff Kim, Liz and Debbie are always happy to help with inquiries. Originally, the Duke held the electorate personally, but it was later made hereditary along with the duchy. For Serbian elites it is the international community that must not be let down, rather than the electorate. Will the GOP electorate be so engaged when they aren't responding to so many attacks and supporting an embattled leader? We as the electorate, have the ability to turn party political dirty tricks in to cold hard cash. And the polls suggest that the benign effects of increased government spending have at last been discerned by the electorate. I'm hopeful that the electorate is a bit more serious than last time and will see the contrast between a man of real substance and an empty suit. So the next best strategy is to convince the electorate that all the other candidates are just as tawdry and dishonest. After 1860, the trend across Europe was to widen the male electorate and enfranchise women for local elections. But such entrism is of little value if the final product is rejected by the electorate as too extreme and too zealously focused on single issues. My own family's history is deeply entwined with that of the Northcote electorate. This is the side of the electorate who recognise a dunderhead when they see one. She goes doorknocking and finds an electorate largely uninformed when it comes to local politics. Word-of-mouth propaganda and pamphlets on bovicide allegedly committed by minorities is used to polarise the electorate. The electorate was enjoying the benefit of years of unbroken economic growth. Seeing that fewer than half the EU electorate picked these MEP characters, is it any wonder that apathy abounds? Maybe the electorate believes that these acts of deception are acceptable standards of behaviour in today's society? Yesterday I wrote that I thought this explanation probably accounted for most of the change in sentiment among the Spanish electorate. To avoid accusations that he didn't live in the electorate, he rented a place there. Race is the most potent weapon in their armoury and some in both the party and the electorate are not afraid to use it. Show More Sentences The campaign is from then on to hold or win the balance who tend normally to make up about forty percent of the electorate. All propaganda is a sophisticated form of deception and she had been caught in the act of misdirecting the electorate. Unions are reinventing themselves to meet the needs of modern workers and political parties too need to reinvent themselves to meet the needs of a disengaged electorate. Presumably he realizes he could spend a fortune and still get fired by the electorate with Apprentice-like swiftness. As in Australia, there appears to be significant disconnect in the United States between the commentariat and the electorate when it comes to choosing national leadership. The heavily evangelical and staunchly conservative electorate was tailor-made for the ex-Georgia congressman. The Labour leadership has badly let down its back benches and the electorate by undoing its accomplished manifesto promise, now they stand for nothing. There is plenty of psephological evidence to suggest that the British electorate has become much more fragmented then it once was, particularly in the last thirty years. Free and fair elections also include a well-informed electorate. He's fresh, an internationalist and touchy-feely with the electorate. But in California Hispanics comprise 23 percent of the electorate versus just over 12 percent nationally. Is it not at least conceivable that the American electorate has changed the way it views women candidates? It does not work quite like that for, fortunately, in addition to the law, we also have a jury called the electorate rather than a kangaroo court called the British media. We need a single legislative council, a bicameral European Parliament, with one house representing member states, and the other the European electorate. Why, instead of playing the Shinners on Shinner turf, did they not try to construct the choice facing the nationalist portion of the electorate as between them and the mafia? And the cost to keypunch paper lists in an electorate of 3 million voters was clearly too much, given our lack of experience in targeted political direct mail. Women voters will likely turn away from him in the end, and he lacks a base in the primary electorate. They must expect the electorate to hold them to what they have said. A reliably Republican midterm electorate will cancel out a Democratic-leaning presidential-year electorate and then some. Now they're bracing for a scorching battle in September over pension reform, a political powder keg because of an electorate angry about shrinking retirement-account balances. Show More Sentences No doubt, the Government's somewhat dismissive and deprecatory attitude towards those opposed to ratification succeeded in turning off a big section of the electorate. Having attracted a familiarity rating of just over two per cent, it's fair to say that in the eyes of the NSW electorate, Morris Iemma is a dark horse. The LCR also dealt with questions like globalisation, women's liberation, gay rights, anti-racism and reform of the drugs laws, and attracted a younger electorate. Firstly, only one in five of the electorate had voted Labour. Democrats want to expand the electorate, and Republicans want to restrict it. In the case of Bush's second term, the decision of the US electorate will undoubtedly, as it already has, impact negatively on fragile and emergent democracies the world over. Moreover, his support also has sagged among Asians, Latinos, Native Americans, and all other non-white segments of the electorate. An uneasy and unhappy electorate has spoken in June, and we should expect more surprises between now and November. Rowhani was elected because he was the least worst choice for a discontented Iranian electorate. The electorate is as diverse in its settings as it is in its peoples. 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. In every midterm with a dyspeptic electorate, their anger has been aimed in one direction. In some ways, they represent the electorate that constantly confused group of people who understand that to solve problems, you have to be part of the participating solution. Instead they were a rebuke from the American electorate to Democrats who had overreached. Republicans can change their brand, appeal to the electorate, shrink government, grow the economy, and save capitalism. And yet this same Arkansas electorate voted nearly two-to-one to back a minimum-wage increase. Pew estimates the number of swing voters at about 25 percent, a quarter of the electorate. Electoral reform is not an issue of significance to the wider electorate. Republicans are having a vigorous debate about whether or not to make serious appeals to the growing Hispanic electorate. The Spanish electorate were not voting for a cave-in to terrorists. Show More Sentences It's a fool's errand when the general electorate is trending in favor of more government. He says he had decided before the May election that if the electorate returned Fine Gael to the opposition benches, it would be his last general election. The claimed input of non-elected people from outside of the Cabinet also undermines the democratic process as such people are unaccountable to the electorate. In short, the government has met with such unalloyed success selling its hard line to an anxious electorate that it has rarely needed to invoke the spectre of absconding. The decision to delay the new parliament's first sitting will only add to cynicism in the electorate and will be no encouragement to take part in the election. That this formal, blatantly uncharismatic man should set the electorate on fire, without the benefit of a media coach or a new suit, has rivals stunned. The British electorate, as some of us feared, has flinched from making tough choices. The number of undecided voters in the electorate is unusually small this year, he added, meaning the contest is unlikely to shift dramatically in either direction. And the other reason is, we all know that this is a really divided electorate, and that there are fewer undecideds this year than in previous cycles. At 55, Burke is a political novice, and in a polarized electorate, that might be a winning formula. Is the baby boomer electorate so puritanical that they would punish progressive politicians who voiced support for liberalizing or legalizing intoxicants, or simply marijuana? It had not spent years polishing the party's image, making it attractive to the electorate, only to have it tarnished by a bunch of low-life crooks. Because of the disparate nature of the electorate, candidates must take to the high roads and by-roads and visit councillors individually to solicit their votes. It found that young people living in constituencies with safe seats, where parties see little incentive in engaging with the electorate, are a particularly worry. Or is this just a case of Labour awaking to the fact that their social engineering programme is about to be revoked by the electorate unless they do it themselves? Yet the Tea Party movement has generated enthusiasm in the electorate that has heretofore not been evident. It is said that the restrictions leave unimpaired the access of potential participants during an election period to other modes of communication with the electorate. The temptation must be enormous to ask the electorate for a fresh mandate, now that the latest opinion polls show he has enough support to be returned to power. Iraq is deeply unpopular with the French electorate as a whole. But comparing these people with our low-turnout, low-commitment electorate, I felt the Chartists and suffragettes would recognise them as fellow spirits. Show More Sentences Instead, it is a collection of rules and practices employed by various partisans at different times that converge to shape the electorate in a single campaign. There is a shift among the electorate to get rid of the sleaze, spin and schmaltz and to replace it with vision, trust and integrity, she claimed. Under these circumstances I think it's fair enough to call them on it, point out that they're arguing in bad faith, and throw them to the electorate. Pearson was playing political hardball, using a pragmatic strategy designed to prise extra resources out of a conservative electorate and its government. Both candidates are Scots, and have no hope of concealing the fact from the English electorate on whose votes they would rely at the General Election. How can the GOP overcome their shrinking electorate and see beyond the insulated conservative bubble? Frequently, those solutions have been diversionary, steering the electorate away from confrontations of their own ambivalence about social change. It is an unviable situation, where, the local county council are stripped of any voice to represent their electorate in regard to such major developments. Lam refused to estimate the number of electorate votes he could count on. Though barely known to the electorate so far, these are the two men who will face each other at the Scottish hustings at next year's Westminster election. The social changes of the last 50 years have created an electorate less loyal to individual parties and no longer deferential towards politicians. By-elections are traditionally the time when the electorate gives the government in power a slap in the face, expressing discontent with the way things are going. More importantly, are we, the electorate, up to the glocal standard? This Prime Minister, who is so fastidious about all matters, says that she was happy to leave the judgment on this issue up to her electorate office staff. But each government understands at some animalistic level that no electorate will celebrate the consequences of doing too little. The balancing act in politics is inspiring the base without alienating the center of the electorate. Get immigration done and the party will be able to compete again on bread-and-butter issues with most of the electorate. How these gestures will be interpreted by the electorate is not clear, but it is clear that they will do anything, even abase themselves in public, to gain power. But surely in taking a position on crunch issues of key importance, the first loyalty of a Member of Parliament should always be to their electorate? Each campaign is convinced that its characterization of its opponent is accurate and will resonate with the electorate. Show More Sentences At the same time, single women now rival evangelicals as a proportion of the electorate. Even now, the GOP still polls less well than the Democratic Party with a surly electorate. Many millions have been spent on television ads in North Carolina, as groups on the right and left try to sway the electorate. His latest speech simply seems to pander to the worst instincts of the electorate. Residents of Somerset also form part of the electorate for the South West England constituency for elections to the European Parliament. Beginning the process could provide a model for how government gridlock might be broken and the demands of the electorate met. Often, local government elections are watched closely to detect the mood of the electorate before upcoming parliamentary elections. He was elected president and elected himself Emperor, a move approved later by a large majority of the French electorate. There was considerable public agitation for further expansion of the electorate, however. The civil wars of medieval Scandinavia and the electorate of the Holy Roman Empire are part of its legacy. Puerto Rico's electorate expressed its support for this measure in 1951 with a second referendum to ratify the constitution. The small Scottish electorate was dominated by two noblemen, the Conservative Duke of Buccleuch and the Liberal Earl of Rosebery. On 19 August, the merger of the presidency with the chancellorship was approved by 90 percent of the electorate in a plebiscite. The electorate has occasionally exercised the power not to retain justices. The Norwegian electorate had rejected treaties of accession to the EU in two referendums. A burgh constituency is now one with a predominantly urban electorate, and a county constituency is one with more than a token rural electorate. A referendum was held on May 19, 2007 and a large majority of the electorate voted against removing the president from office. Its constitutional amending powers were passed to the legislative yuan and its electoral powers were passed to the electorate. 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. Are we the electorate deemed to be only useful at an election, used as cannon fodder and then ignored? Show More Sentences On page 86, you will find the results of a recent poll, which dramatically illustrates the relative knowledgability of the Swedish electorate. In the Republic, the electorate voted upon the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution of Ireland. It is not that the electorate as a whole is shifting rightward but that the political right is getting more extreme. Barry Goldwater, hitherto dormant conservatives would join the electorate in numbers sufficient for victory. He later addressed the electorate in Salon assembly segments of Amethi, which is a Gandhi family pocket borough. Some believe they won protest votes, but others say he's delivering what the electorate wants. Little wonder a bewildered, angry electorate can so easily buy into the dangerous propa ganda of fear sounded by Ukip. The senior members of the livery companies, known as liverymen, form a special electorate known as Common Hall. The result was a rejection of the proposal by a landslide majority, with only just over one per cent of the electorate in favour. Restraints imposed by the Commons grow weaker when the Government's party enjoys a large majority in that House, or among the electorate. Derbyshire residents are part of the electorate for the East Midlands constituency for elections to the European Parliament. Violent gangs of the urban unemployed, controlled by rival Senators, intimidated the electorate through violence. Fredrick the Great, Elector of Brandenburg and King of Prussia, commanded the most powerful electorate in the Empire. Justices of the Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal are appointed by the Governor, but are subject to retention by the electorate every 12 years. Bohemia lost its position of an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire as well as its own political representation in the Imperial Diet. The electorate was asked to vote on two sets of statements which corresponded to both proposals. However, in India, which boasts an electorate of more than 814 million people, the opposite is true. Barbour and Wright also believe that one of the causes is restrictive voting laws but they call this system of laws regulating the electorate. The commissioners were elected by the existing town council of the burgh, not by the electorate at large. What distinguishes the core of the rightwing populist electorate is its gullibility to idiocy-promoting rhetoric against climate science. Show More Sentences In contrast the electorate of the neighbouring Aberdare Valley was relatively small, numbering 3,691 compared with 22,083 in Merthyr. Without conferring with his British ministers, George stationed them in Hanover to prevent enemy French troops from marching into the electorate. The subsequent Congress of Vienna led to significant territorial gains for Hanover, which was upgraded from an electorate to a kingdom. Conversely, the borough electorate, in Cardiff, Swansea and Merthyr Tydfil had been greatly expanded. In a 2003 referendum the Swedish electorate voted against the country joining the Euro currency. Seeing the mess professional politicians have made of things is it any wonder the electorate is beginning to prefer outsiders. So, with the Republican nominating electorate increasingly persnickety about ideological purity, governors often are more disadvantaged than senators as candidates. It added 217,000 voters to an electorate of 435,000 in England and Wales. The electorate was further expanded by the Representation of the People Act 1884, under which property qualifications in the counties were lowered. Its electorate consisted of the graduates of the university. The Protestant movement of the 16th century occurred under the protection of the Electorate of Saxony, an independent hereditary electorate of the Holy Roman Empire. A Scottish Parliament was convened by the Scotland Act 1998, following a referendum in 1997, in which the Scottish electorate voted for devolution. From this point on all the political parties in the Republic were formally in favour of ending partition regardless of the opinion of the electorate in Northern Ireland. While no constituencies were disfranchised in either of those countries, voter qualifications were standardised and the size of the electorate was expanded in both. One part of the Agreement is that Northern Ireland will remain within the United Kingdom unless a majority of the Northern Irish electorate vote otherwise. For this example, suppose that the entire electorate lives in these four cities and that everyone wants to live as near to the capital as possible. Our only object in limiting the period of the duration of Parliament is that the House of Commons shall not get out of touch with the opinion of the electorate. Norway, however, declined to accept the invitation to become a member when the electorate voted against it, leaving just the UK, Ireland and Denmark to join. On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, and on 27 March 2017 United Kingdom formally requested such a withdrawal. When the constituency was established the vast majority of the electorate were resident in Merthyr Tydfil and its environs, such as the industrial township of Dowlais. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of electorate? Words that rhyme with electorate What is the plural of electorate? What is the noun for electorate? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words electoral vote electorally Electoral College electoral college electoral Elector electorates electorate's electors Electors Electra Electra complex 10-letter Words Starting With e el ele elec elect electo elector electora electorat