electorate
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Nearly 80% of the electorate voted—a record turnout, up about 10 points from the 2022 national election.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Defra said if waste collection authorities did not comply with their statutory duties, they risked judicial review - but as independent bodies, councils were accountable to their electorate rather than ministers or government departments.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
Madrid suggested the demographic rallying is less a “reversion” and more a reflection of a rapidly changing electorate.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026
Without the runoff rematch between Herrera and Gonzales, we won’t learn whether there are limits to how much internet edginess an electorate can handle.
From Slate • Mar. 9, 2026
“On the day the electorate, as expected in polls, was voting in unprecedented numbers against bombing North Vietnam or otherwise escalating the war, we were working to set such a policy in motion,” Ellsberg recalled.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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