8 sentences with 'electorate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word electorate and other words derived from it.
• « Liberals also believed in the desirability of an elected parliament, albeit with a restricted electorate: almost universally, liberals of the time thought that the vote should be restricted to those who owned significant amounts of property, thus (they thought) guaranteeing social stability. »
• « The "citizen king", as he was called, expanded the electorate, re-established freedom of the press and abandoned the kind of medieval court etiquette favoured by Charles X. »
• « The irony of Louis Philippe's "July Monarchy" is that it demonstrated some of the limitations of the liberalism of the time. The electorate was very small, composed of the wealthy (both nobles and bourgeois). »
• « There was limited representative government in parliament, and the electorate represented mostly the landed gentry class. Moreover, the constituencies were either totally out of sync with the British population or were, in fact, complete nonsense. »
• « Likewise, public opinion mattered in a way it had never mattered before for the simple fact that each of the great powers had at least a limited electorate and parliaments with at least some real power to make laws. »
• « That said, the Nazis were masters at tailoring their messages to the electorate; most of their propaganda was about German pride, unity and the need for social and economic order and prosperity, not hatred of Jews or the need to launch attacks on other European nations. They were offered as a solution to the inefficiency of the Weimar Republic, not as a potential bloodbath. »
• « About 30% of the electorate in France and Italy voted Communist immediately after the war, but that percentage declined steadily in the decades that followed. »
• « Thatcher thus remained in power until 1990, when her own party decided that she was no longer acceptable to the electorate and replaced her with a somewhat forgettable British politician called John Major. »