Sentence examples for small electorate of from inspiring English sources

What weight should be given to the views of a politician from Tasmania who gets a first preference vote of about 26% of a very small electorate of 360,000 people?

The relatively small electorates for City of London elections mean that seats can be won and lost with just a handful of votes.

Jenny Leong safely took the inner Sydney seat of Newtown, the state's newest and smallest electorate, with 60% of the vote after preferences compared to Labor's 39%.

Many constituencies, especially those with small electorates, were under the control of rich landowners, and were known as nomination boroughs or pocket boroughs, because they were said to be in the pockets of their patrons.

30 seats from functional constituencies are directly elected by a smaller electorate, which consists of corporate bodies and persons from various stipulated functional sectors.

Greens candidate Sam Hibbins won the state's smallest electorate by a slim margin of 262 votes over incumbent Clem Newton-Brown.

If the traditional Iowa electorate of a small number of older Democratic partisans had shown up, Clinton would have defeated Obama.

Georgius Agricola (; 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555) was a universally educated German Humanist scholar and one of the leading experts on mineralogy and metallurgy of his time, born in the small town of Glauchau, in the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire.

The yes campaign didn't win by piling up votes in a small number of electorates.

A candidate can go far winning small slices of the electorate.

Here again, however, those voters made up a small proportion of the electorate – fewer than one-fifth.