electorate

Converse of object

• convince: Dave the Tea Boy: We need to convince the electorate that we've changed Good luck on that one, mate.
• bribe: Yet the Labor party are continuing the Tory policy of trying to bribe the electorate, instead of maintaining proper levels of public expenditure.
• mislead: They have such a strong sense of their own righteousness that they feel entitled to mislead the electorate.
• persuade: Political leaders were therefore willing to attempt to persuade electorates of the merits of their cause.
• confuse: We condemn the Government in London for this tactic to delay peace and confuse the electorate in Northern Ireland.
• engage: Consent engages the whole electorate, consensus involves only a majority.

Preposition: at

• election: They are even under no obligation to govern according to the platform they put before the electorate at the election.

Converse of subject

• reject: Bizarre... Mike - I agree it's a manifesto that can be accepted or rejected by the electorate.

Adjective modifier

• skeptical: Crucially, he argues, Labor must find a way of using its beliefs to explain its policies to an increasingly skeptical electorate.
• municipal: Less than 15 per cent of the municipal electorate voted.
• British: I believe the British electorate are ready to support such an agenda.
• Scottish: Clearly the advent of new Tory leader has not impacted on the Scottish electorate, at least yet.
• total: A petition reaching 5 % of the total electorate would trigger a referendum based on that petition.
• entire: In fact, they make up about one-fifth of the entire electorate.

Modifies a noun

• voting: In Scotland turnout is better than in England with 59.4 per cent of the electorate voting in the 1999 elections for Scottish Unitary councils.
• vote: In the case of the second vote, the electorate votes for a political party or independent candidate standing for a Scottish Parliament region.

Noun used with modifier

• constituency: In general, the intention is to ensure that constituency electorates are kept roughly equal.

Preposition: in

• constituency: But an MP also works on behalf of the electorate in the home constituency.
• referendum: It was to be put to the electorate in a referendum, but never was.

Preposition: of

• constituency: It is their responsibility to the party to ensure that each candidate is able and has an appeal to the electorate of that constituency.