Crossword clues for electorate
electorate
- Body that fills a seat?
- Political decision-makers
- Voters in general
- The body of enfranchised citizens
- Those qualified to vote
- Targets of 61 Across
- Voters to create panic after conclusion of Article 50
- Voters collectively
- Voters potentially have online reader worried
- Academic worried by Burke or Hare finally choosing body
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Electorate \E*lect"or*ate\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]lectorat.]
The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire.
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The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them.
The middle-class electorate of Great Britain.
--M. Arnold.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "condition of being an elector," in reference to Germany, from elector + -ate (1). Meaning "whole body of voters" is from 1879.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote. 2 The geographic area encompassing an electoral district. 3 The dominion of an Elector in the Holy Roman Empire.
WordNet
n. the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote
Wikipedia
Electorate may refer to:
- people who are elegible to vote in an election
- an electoral district or constituency, the geographic area of a particular election
- the dominion of a Prince-elector in the Holy Roman Empire until 1806
Usage examples of "electorate".
Malta by then had only advanced as far as dyarchy, and if anything moved even closer to England in February, when the electorate voted three to one to put Maltese members in the British House of Commons.
The town workman was enfranchised by this Act as the middle-class man had been enfranchised by the Act of 1832, and the electorate was increased from about 100,000 to 2,000,000.
Hopes, it was said, were given to the king of Sweden, that his concurrence would be gratified by erecting the house of Hesse-Cassel, of which he was head, into a tenth electorate.
Narbukan Fimbria, it was true, had opened itself to the outside world after the schism with the rest of the electorates, but as a result it was no longer seen as truly Fimbrian.
Golophin must have suspected that there was something afoot in Fimbria, for it was he who advised me to sound out the electorates.
But he would have the additional power of introducing legislation into a legislative council and, in case his proposed legislation were rejected or amended in an inacceptable manner, of appealing to the electorate.
Gulam Nohiuddin has resigned his Honorary Magistrateship, I hope that both these patriots will not consider that they have done their last duty by their acts of renunciation, but I hope they will regard their acts as a prelude to acts of greater purpose and greater energy and I hope they will take in hand the work of educating the electorate in their districts regarding boycott of councils.
Actually, it is doubtful that any of the memorialists had in mind an electorate that would include more than a small percentage of the Japanese people.
About the latter end of November, the Hanoverian army was wholly assembled at Stade, under the auspices of prince Ferdinand, who resolved without delay to drive the French from the electorate, whither they now began their march.
When in 1806 Napoleon marched against Prussia, he detached Marshal Mortier from the Grand Army when it had passed the Rhine, and directed him to invade the Electorate of Hesse, and march on Hamburg.
The electorate was summoned by Mortier on the 25th of May, and the Hanoverians being unable to resist, soon capitulated possession was taken of the country, and Mortier was enabled to control the navigation of the Elbe, and the Weser, as well as to levy contributions on the rich towns of Hamburg and Bremen.
I assumed this place would be a madhouse of pols and newsies, with Li and his buddies trotting every one of their candidates through here, giving each of those clowns a chance to sound off for the electorate.
The Swedish monarch was rendered propitious to the project by assurances that the house of Hesse-Cassel, of which he was the head, should be elevated into an electorate.
But in 1777 the electorate was not anxious for reform, and the unenfranchised gave no thought to their political disabilities.
On the fourth day of October, after the siege of Fribourg, the mareschal duke de Belleisle, and his brother, happened in their way to Berlin to halt at a village in the forest of Hartz, dependent on the electorate of Hanover.