The phrase "an electoral year" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a year in which elections are held, typically for political offices.
Example: "The candidates are ramping up their campaigns as we approach an electoral year."
Alternatives: "an election year" or "a voting year".
Now, as an electoral year opens, most observers think that politics will freeze further progress.
"They engineered an electoral year boomlet that is now going to fizzle," said Mr. Hausmann, who supported Mr. Capriles.
"This is an electoral year in both the US and Venezuela, and I would be surprised if the Republicans don't use this kind of event to exert more pressure on the Obama administration.
Nevertheless, it is not clear whether the US President will have the boldness to create a surprise when it comes to Israel during an electoral year, but the administration realizes that the old considerations are out of the question when it comes to the new Arab Spring.
"We could do it in a much better manner in an electoral year, be much more effective". Among the hardest-hit places is the state of Guerrero, where political corruption is rampant and sundry factions vie for control of drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping and other rackets.
The latter won the biggest and most closely watched race of the night, giving Democrats a shot in the arm after a tough electoral year.
REPUBLICANS had a good electoral year in 2010.
THE elections in Nigeria due in April are Africa's most important in a crowded electoral year.
Ms. Werronen prompted the inquiry in a sleepy electoral year in which her party, like the Democrats themselves, had not been able to produce a challenger to the mayor.
IT WAS the first outing of a potentially game-changing electoral year in Spain.
Perhaps surprisingly for an election held in the aftermath of a seismic change in the international scene, there are few signs, as the electoral year begins, of profound electoral shifts.
