elector
54% of voters were in favour, 30% against, and the rest were undecided.
Many voters have become disenchanted with the government.
We asked a random sample of voters for their opinions on current political issues.
The party's policy on childcare facilities is bound to appeal to women voters.
The voter turnout in most precincts of the city is expected to be high.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Voters & candidates in elections
abstainer
Brexiteer
candidate
carpetbagger
constituency
constituent
coronate
floating voter
multi-candidate
nay
non-voter
non-voting
primary
slate
swing voter
ticket
unaffiliated
unelectable
write in
yea

voter | American Dictionary

voter
noun[ C ]
us/ˈvoʊ·t̬ər/
social studies
a person who votes, or a person who has the legal right to vote:
Voters are interested in issues that affect their pocketbooks, he said.

voter | Business English

voter
noun[ C ]
 GOVERNMENT, MEETINGSuk /ˈvəʊtər/us
a person who votes or who has a legal right to vote:
59% of the party's voters want him to remain as party leader.

Examples of voter

voter
In other words, voters had good reason to vote strategically within parties to maximize the number of seats their side would win.
Elections may be nominally free, but governments engage in extensive gerrymandering, manipulation of voter registration and harassment of opposition parties.
The system's popularity among voters is so great, that many perceive program reform as tantamount to touching the ' ' third rail ' ' of politics.
Unlike legislative bodies, courts are not directly accountable to voters, and at least in theory, they are not influenced by public opinion.
However, it is unclear how much, or what, information voters ought to know in order to make an informed choice among candidates.
An issue would be placed on the ballot if a large number of voters from around the country signed a petition.
It could, of course, simply be that the voters did not understand the categorisation, or did not know what the genre 'soul' meant.
Recall that the logic behind this result is that retrospective, incumbency-oriented voters will punish incumbents for poor economic performances.
In contrast, there is more support for the assumption that broad coalition governments depress efficacy which can discourage voter participation.
In particular, the 100 and 100 endpoints can artificially stretch the distribution of voters around a party's position.
The result is that the left party is elected to implement policies that a majority of voters do not want.
The papers reviewed have focused on indirect communication - from voters to elected politicians through voting and from politicians to voters through campaign fund-raising.
As always in times of retrenchment, elected officials have needed to win the goodwill of voters and interest groups for these unpopular cutbacks.
There are of course some areas where voters may, as it were, legitimately prefer non-rational solutions.
Low-information voters are much less likely to translate their preferences for divided government into split-ticket voting.
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Collocations withvoter

voter

These are words often used in combination with voter.

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average voter
An issue of high concern to the averagevoter and associated campaigns by environmental and consumer groups can exert ' pull' and ' push' effects on producers (industry).
conservative voter
Adelaide has a mix of working class and conservative voters, making the seat one of the most marginal in the country.
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