"electorate" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as a noun to describe a body of people with the right to vote in an election. For example, "The electorate of the city turned out in large numbers to vote in the election."
Over the course of the past five years Britain's electorate has become increasingly fragmented.
Mirabella has locked media representatives out of her election night function in the electorate.
It is deeply condescending towards the electorate to think votes are won on the basis of a politician's partner.
McGowan said she was "very relieved and very proud" to have won the closely-fought contest for the rural Victorian electorate, following Mirabella's concession on Wednesday morning.
"If there is no union then why should the English pay, why would the English electorate agree to let Scots share their currency?" Trimble was awarded the Nobel peace prize, along with John Hume, for his role in bringing about the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
Mirabella denies that she has ignored the electorate and says she has been fighting for better rural services for the past six years, only to be stymied by an indifferent Labor government.
ReachTel polling in Indi, a vast electorate in Victoria's north-east that encompasses Wangaratta, Wodonga and part of the state's snowfields, showed that McGowan is set to capture 25% of the primary vote, with Mirabella on 47%, down from the 52.62% of the primary vote she won in 2010.
"As this month's election in the UK showed, the electorate have recently sent us back to the classroom for the second time in five years".
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As those born after 1980 become more plentiful in the electorate, we will likely see more victories for same-sex marriage forces.
This is the key question now facing Alasdair McDonnell and his embattled troops as they seek to carve out a survival strategy over the next few months: to be inside the tent or out; to offer the electorate something different other than crowing about the party's past record of promoting non-violent nationalism and historic compromise with unionism.
