Sentence examples for former electorate from inspiring English sources

She offered a few brief comments on Toyota's looming exit from Australia - the Altona plant was in her former electorate Lalor - and said it was an "obvious dislocation" for the economy.

Labor has asked the auditor general to investigate Sophie Mirabella's claims her former electorate did not receive $10m in hospital funding because it voted her out, arguing it smacks of "political retribution".

In 1973, the New South Wales Electoral Commission named the new state electorate of Heffron after him and it covers much of his former electorate of Botany.

Joyce, who faces a challenge in his New England electorate from former independent Tony Windsor, accused a "Labor-Greens-Independent alliance" of trying to "make people poorer".

Labour should stop its "torturous repetition" of political messages, such as Ed Miliband's "one nation" slogan, because parroting the same phrases is turning off the electorate, a former shadow cabinet aide has said.

In a sign of concerns among supporters of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that Miliband is misreading the mood of the electorate, the former No 10 adviser Patrick Diamond warned that Labour would only win if it united a "broad spectrum" of classes and reached beyond "partisan and tribal lines".

In mid-November 1978, Californian congressman Leo Ryan and his entourage visited Jonestown after hearing that former members of his electorate were being held against their will.

"It would be a great shot of adrenaline going into New Hampshire, where they might find a more favorable electorate," said former state GOP chairman Matt Strawn, who saw both men speak Saturday.

Johnson's second shot at the presidency has focused on building legitimacy with the broader electorate: tapping former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld as his running mate, tirelessly working the media circuit, and now, rubbing elbows with celebrities.

"The real danger of the current situation is that having got their new preferred candidate into State House, the military will want to keep him or her there, no matter what the electorate wills," former education minister David Coltart said.

Republican Rep. Steve King is favored among GOP primary voters but less appealing to the general electorate, while former Gov. Tom Vilsack is a potential favorite if he chooses to enter the Democratic primary, according to polling in the state.