Sentence examples for half the electorate from inspiring English sources

About half the electorate does not vote.

Muslim hard-liners made the biggest gains as almost half the electorate stayed at home.

True, it seems: nearly half the electorate did not vote for any candidate in the congressional elections of October 14th.

Half the electorate will sit on its hands come election day, a record abstention rate, every poll suggests.

IRELAND'S voters endorsed the European fiscal compact on May 31st, but they did so without great enthusiasm in a referendum in which half the electorate failed to vote.

The polls may still show us in the lead, but almost half the electorate refuse to say how they will vote.

In any case, this is not the picture of a nation in which approximately half the electorate has recently rejected the legitimacy of progressive redistribution.

In addition, roughly half the electorate says the country is on the wrong track, say pollsters, which is usually bad news for a sitting president.

As it is, almost half the electorate did.

Less than half of half the electorate.

A recent poll found almost half the electorate was considering abstention.