How to Use electorate in a Sentence

electorate

noun
  • But the thing is, there are not more of them in the electorate now than there were last month.
    CBS News, 16 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • There were some states where Black people were 40% or so of the electorate.
    Brandon Tensley, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
  • They are believed to be about 10 percent of the electorate.
    Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 7 May 2023
  • Plus, younger voters are the smallest part of the electorate by age.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 3 May 2024
  • Jobs and the economy came in second, at 86% of the electorate, and crime came in third, at 85%.
    Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 27 July 2022
  • In 2020, women made up a bigger share of the electorate than men.
    Will Weissert and Zeke Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
  • But their electorates have gotten to know them that way.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • It can be used to sway teachers, courts, or electorates.
    IEEE Spectrum, 6 Mar. 2023
  • This group makes up 39% of the likely electorate in his district.
    Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 31 July 2024
  • Polling has found double haters make up between 15% and 20% of the electorate.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • The poll suggests the makeup of the electorate will be challenging for Bain.
    Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2024
  • That’s nearly double the percentage of the electorate that said the same two years ago.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Latinos, who make up more than a third of the city’s electorate, could still swing for Bass, experts said.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2022
  • 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
  • This tough talk appealed to a substantial chunk of the electorate.
    Jeffrey A. Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Still, the measure must win a ⅔ vote to pass, placing a high bar of approval for Gilroy’s electorate.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Latino voters are among the fastest-growing groups in the electorate.
    Ruth Igielnik, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • According to Time, white voters made up two-thirds of the electorate in 2020.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 11 Nov. 2022
  • And about one-third of the electorate – the firm Trump supporters − has already written him off.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
  • There’s not a battleground state where poor and low-wage people don’t make up more than 40% of the electorate.
    John Blake, CNN, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Then in 2019 the electorate voted in Nayib Bukele on a law-and-order platform.
    Eduardo Gamarra, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a lot more churn in the electorate than most people realize.
    Nate Cohn, New York Times, 24 May 2024
  • White voters were a higher share of the electorate and voted in large numbers for Trump.
    Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The polling also shows that these shifts have been unusually big among certain segments of the electorate.
    Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The data shows that voters without a college degree, who made up 57 percent of the electorate, favored Trump, with 56 percent casting their vote for him.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024

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