electoral
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- adjective
- /ɪˈlɛktərəl/
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electoral
- And California is one of the fastest-growing states, it's got the largest number of electoral votes in the country.
- electoral process
- electoral system
- electoral campaign
I've never seen education cut across normal electoral values the way it did.
- I've never seen education cut across normal electoral values the way it did.
- He judicially reviewed with his Good Law project, the Electoral Commission's second decision.
- I think Bernie Sanders was able to persuade during his electoral campaign.
- And that would produce fairer, better drawn electoral districts and more competitive House races.
- And then we also had to go and get the electoral numbers.
- So a single court case could decide the outcome of a huge state with lots of electoral votes here.
- And it's easy to say those things when everyone's trying to place the blame for an electoral loss.
- You know, I, I went through much smaller scale court battles in, I had a court case against the Electoral Commission after Brexit.
- An African American candidate has far less leeway and often tends to incur harmful consequences and loses electoral support from white voters.
- Folks have motivations around, you know, electoral gains and, you know, heightened and racial anxiety to achieve those electoral gains.
- And so when he wants the electoral optics of voting with Trump so that it plays well with his RedState base, he does that.
Examples
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Barack Obama won the popular vote twice, and he won the electoral vote twice.
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The electoral system in our country allows citizens to vote for their representatives.
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Means that no government will ever really have that electoral push to create an elected house.
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Yes, I think that everyone should have the right to, to, to participate in an electoral process.
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So a single court case could decide the outcome of a huge state with lots of electoral votes here.
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So I think just safeguarding our electoral process on the campaign finance side and on the voting rights side are really key.
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To issue this report is really because of Macron's electoral campaign.
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So Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes goes for Trump.
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I heard the accusations of Russia interfering in the US electoral process, which is not confirmed by real evidence.
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What is the significance of the UNO electoral victory for the future of popular democracy?
Academic text (1990)
Compounds
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5.9
A group of people chosen to elect the United States president and vice president
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Electoral comes from the same root as elect and election, from a Latin word meaning 'to choose'. So, electoral is about things 'relating to choosing', especially in voting and elections.