(a group name used with a singular verb; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is pronounced with a ‘k’ sound)
all the electors/voters of an area – a state or country – who are eligible to and have the legal right to vote, taken as a group,
the electorate waiting to cast their votes at a polling booth
e.g.
It is everybody’s knowledge that an educated electorate elects the best of the candidates.
The politicians play suitable gimmicks depending on the electorate they are dealing with, for example, for unban electorate, more and more jobs and better education are promised, and for rural electorate, more and more agricultural subsidies and better health facilities are promised.
When there is a negative voting tendency in the electorate, the opposition party is sure to win.
For an article about the uneducated electorate, please click here, for an article that speaks of electorate being educated and uneducated, please click here, for an article that has both ‘electorate’ and ‘voters’ in it, please click here, for a news article about electorate’s decision in Jamica, please click here and for another item of news about electorate, please click here.
Note: The ‘electorate’ is more commonly used to refer to an area with voters in the context of election and voting, i.e. the electorate of your district or county (all the electors who are eligible to vote) go to your electorate polling booth. A voter/elector cannot go to any polling booth he/she likes to cast his/her vote because each elector/voter in an area is registered in his/her ‘electorate’ and to check and cross check and to avoid malpractices during voting, the district, state and country are divided into ‘electorates’, or more commonly known as ‘constituencies’. Therefore, an elector is an individual voter and ‘electors’ is the plural of ‘elector’, and ‘electorate’ is all the voters/electors of an area, region or state taken as a group.
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