How to Use electorate in a Sentence

electorate

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Georgia saw the largest increase, with a 4 percentage point rise in the Black electorate.
    Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The electorate is split: 47% have a positive view of her, 46% have a negative one.
    Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 10 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Latino voters are a key and rapidly growing part of the electorate.
    Megan Stringer, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024

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