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In Politics , an electorate is the group of people entitled to Vote in an Election . The term can refer to:
  • the totality of Vote rs or Elector s (''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 Enroll ed in a geographically-defined area (''the electorate of Finchley returned the Tory candidate again'')

  • less commonly, 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'').


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).


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When the term is used in the last, geographic, sense above, electorates are more commonly known as:



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