How to Use electorate in a Sentence

electorate

noun
  • And then the third was the electorate.
    — Mará Rose Williams august 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2025
  • There is room for the electorate to change.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • But the electorate didn’t agree.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 31 Dec. 2025
  • More than a quarter of the electorate chose not to vote at all.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2022
  • But polling shows the electorate may have shifted.
    — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 14 Mar. 2026
  • But the thing is, there are not more of them in the electorate now than there were last month.
    — CBS News, 16 Oct. 2022
  • It can’t be made after that day by voters or the electorate as a whole.
    — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Make no mistake -- this is a win for voters and the electorate at large.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 30 June 2026
  • Plus, younger voters are the smallest part of the electorate by age.
    — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 3 May 2024
  • And those voters are the fastest growing bloc in the state's electorate.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Democrats’ share of the electorate came in at 32 percent.
    — Julia Manchester, The Hill, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Such changes need the approval of 60% of the electorate.
    — Kirby Wilson, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • They are aligned with the electorate’s aims as revealed in last year’s exit polling.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 Feb. 2025
  • That posture appealed to a risk-averse electorate.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Recent research paints a picture of an electorate in flux and up for grabs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2021
  • The powerful party thus gets more seats than its share of the electorate.
    — Charlie Cooper, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
  • The American electorate has made its views on guns clear again and again.
    — John J. Donohue, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a lot more churn in the electorate than most people realize.
    — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 24 May 2024
  • These independents are about a third or more of the electorate.
    — Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • This tough talk appealed to a substantial chunk of the electorate.
    — Jeffrey A. Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2024
  • That tells her the electorate is largely sick of partisan games.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The party has to hope that’s enough time to leave the electorate feeling more upbeat.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The race is an early bellwether about the mood of the electorate in the nation’s largest city.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • For a big chunk of the electorate, Dobson’s worldview was the truth and the light.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
  • There were some states where Black people were 40% or so of the electorate.
    — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Latino voters are among the fastest-growing groups in the electorate.
    — Ruth Igielnik, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • That’s nearly double the percentage of the electorate that said the same two years ago.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Our leaders set out on a course for two years, and then get another sounding from the electorate.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025
  • His use of Twitter to reach the electorate may not have been out of choice, however.
    — Elizabeth Wells, CNN, 13 May 2023

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