Electorate

Definition: Electorate

Electorate

Noun

1. The body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote.

Date "electorate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Government	Reign, regime, dynasty; directorship, dictatorship; protectorate, protectorship; caliphate, pashalic, electorate; presidency, presidentship; administration; proconsul, consulship; prefecture; seneschalship; magistrature, magistracy.
	Electorate, constituents.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

In politics, an electorate is the group of entities entitled to vote in an election. The term can refer to:

the totality of voters or electors (the electorate has the opportunity to express its will)
the partisans of a particular individual, group or political party (Gospodin Putin played to the prejudices of his personal electorate)
the collection of the voters enrolleded in a geographically-defined area (the electorate of Finchley retuned the Tory candidate again)
the geographically-defined area which returns (elects) a representative (the electorate of Finchley borders on the electorate of Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh, splitting the new housing estate of Royal Cupolas). Compare ward, district.

The term was also sometimes used to refer to the dominion of an Elector in the Holy Roman Empire, who was a prince or bishop able to participate in the selection of the Emperor. One particularly well known electorate of this type was the Electorate of Hanover. In this usage, the word refers to a realm controlled by a single elector, rather than a collective of multiple electors (as in the other usages given).

Crosswords: Electorate

English words defined with "electorate": Electorality ♦ middle class ♦ plebiscite ♦ recast, referendum, reforge, remodel. (references)

Etymologies containing "electorate": Electorality. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Statistical History of the American Electorate (reference) Counting on the Latino Vote: Latinos As a New Electorate (reference) E-Democracy: Eyeing the Electronic Electorate [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) How Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Shape the California Electorate (reference) Political Behavior of the American Electorate (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Denmark	Electorate participation normally is more than 85%. (references)
	Djibouti	The RPP won all 65 seats in the national assembly, with a turnout of less than 50% of the electorate. (references)
	Romania	The 1996 local elections realized a major shift in the political orientation of the Romanian electorate. (references)
Minorities	Cote d'Ivoire	Other ethnic groups include few noncitizens, and their share of the electorate would be decreased by enfranchising noncitizens. (references)
	Cote d'Ivoire	Some ethnic groups include many noncitizens, and their share of the electorate would be increased by enfranchising noncitizens. (references)
Political Economy	Turkey	Its electorate is urban-based and its leader is Mesut Yilmaz. (references)
Political Rights	Guatemala	Only 20 percent of the electorate voted. (references)
	Ukraine	However, most observers agreed that all of these votes generally represented the will of the electorate. (references)
	Cambodia	Despite such incidents, the formation of the new Government appeared to reflect the will of the electorate. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
William H. Taft	1909-1913	The danger of the control of an ignorant electorate has therefore passed.
Herbert C. Hoover	1929-1933	Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Electorate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.97% of the time. "Electorate" is used about 640 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.97%	627	10,347
Adjective (general or positive)	1.56%	10	111,207
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.16%	1	339,140
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.16%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	0.16%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	640	N/A

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Language		Translations for "electorate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		elektorat, zonë (area, belt, field, pale, precinct, range, region, section, zone), zgjedhësit, rreth elektoral. (various references)

Arabic		‏جمهور الناخبين (constituency, country). (various references)

Bulgarian		всички избиратели, избирателна колегия (constituency, seat), избирателен район (constituency, district, precinct, seat). (various references)

Chinese		全�"选民. (various references)

Czech		volièstvo (constituency), volièi. (various references)

Danish		vaelgerskaren, vaelgerne, vaelgerkorpset. (various references)

Dutch		een zo goed mogelijke afspiegeling vd kiezerswil zijn in het parlement (to reflect as exactly as possible in Parliament the will of the electorate). (various references)

Finnish		valitsijakunta (constituency). (various references)

French		électeurs. (various references)

German		wählerschaft (constituents). (various references)

Greek		εκλογικό σώμα. (various references)

Hebrew		�'וף �"בוחרים. (various references)

Hungarian		választók (grassroots, voters), választókerület (beat, borough, constituency, election district, franchise, precinct, ward), választófejedelemség. (various references)

Indonesian		kaum pemilih. (various references)

Italian		elettorato (dialer, eligibility, franchise). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		選挙民 (voters), 有権者 (constituency). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せ�"きょみ�" (voters), ゆうけ�"しゃ (constituency). (various references)

Korean		� 권자. (various references)

Manx		teiyderaght, reihderaght. (various references)

Pig Latin		electorateay.(various references)

Portuguese		voto eleitoral (suffrage, vote), corpo eleitoral. (various references)

Romanian		demnitate de principe elector, corp electoral (constituency, constituent body), circumscripţie electoralã (constituency). (various references)

Russian		контингент избирателей, избирательный округ (constituency, precinct). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		glasačko telo. (various references)

Spanish		electorado (voters). (various references)

Swedish		valmanskår (constituency, constituent assembly). (various references)

Thai		ผู้ที่มีสิทธิเลือกตั้งทั้งหม�"ในท้องที่หรือเขตหนึ่งๆ. (various references)

Turkish		seçmenler (constituency, constituent body). (various references)

Ukranian		виборчий округ (constituency, ward), виборці (constituency), електорат. (various references)

Vietnamese		thái ấp của tuyến hầu, Đức địa vị tuyến hầu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "electorate": electorates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Electorate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alectoria, elecorate, electoate, Electrabel, Electribe, lectorate, selectorate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "electorate" (pronounced ule"kterut)
6	-e" k t er u t	directorate, inspectorate, protectorate.
5	-k t er u t	doctorate.
4	-t er u t	illiterate, inveterate, literate.
3	-er u t	accurate, barbiturate, commensurate, confederate, conglomerate, considerate, corporate, degenerate, deliberate, disparate, emirate, favorite, inaccurate, intemperate, moderate, triumvirate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-l-o-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: relocatee.
	-2 letters: corelate, electret, etcetera, raclette, relocate, tercelet, tolerate.
	-3 letters: calotte, clatter, elector, electro, locater, ocreate, reelect, treacle.
	-4 letters: areole, cartel, cattle, cerate, cereal, claret, coaler, coatee, coater, colter, cottae, cottar, cotter, create, creole, ecarte, elater, latter, lector, letter, locate, ocreae, oleate, oracle, rattle, recoal, rectal, relace, relate, rotate, tectal, teeter, tercel, tercet, terete.
	-5 letters: actor, alert, alter, arete, artel, caret, carle, carol, carte, cater, ceorl, claro, clear, cleat, coral, cotta, crate, creel, eater, eclat, elate, elect, erect, lacer, laree, later, latte, lotte, oater, ocrea, octal, octet, orate, ottar, otter, ratel, react, recta, recto, relet, rotte, tacet, taler, taroc, tarot, tater, tecta, telae, terce, tetra, tolar, torte, total, toter, trace, tract, treat.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-l-o-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: electorates.
	+2 letters: bachelorette, coelenterate, electroplate.
	+3 letters: bachelorettes, coelenterates, electromagnet, electroplated, electroplates.
	+4 letters: electromagnets, electrotherapy, electrothermal, intercorrelate.
	+5 letters: electromagnetic, electronegative, enterobacterial, intercollegiate, intercorrelated, intercorrelates, magnetoelectric, radiotelemetric, recontextualize.
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