electoral prospects

collocation in English

meanings of electoraland prospect

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electoral
adjective[before noun]
uk /iˈlek.tər.əl/ us /iˈlek.tɚ.əl/
relating to ...
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prospect
noun
uk /ˈprɒs.pekt/ us /ˈprɑː.spekt/
the possibility that something good might happen in ...
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Examples of electoral prospects

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First, being loyal to a party can improve the electoralprospect of a candidate if the party label matters greatly to voters in making voting decisions.
The prime minister's electoral prospects depend not only on the fragmentation of her coalition, but also on its numerical strength vis-a-vis the opposition.
Secondly, they estimate electoral prospects with greater noise.
The first assumption captures the idea that parties provide resources essential for the electoral prospects of politicians.
That is, do considerations of electoral prospects weaken the mass public's satisfaction with democracy?
Everything else being equal, we expect voters to prefer an alternative party with superior electoral prospects.
The more coalition parties, the more likely either of these scenarios and, therefore, the weaker are the electoral prospects of the prime minister.
This result is largely explained by its high correlation with candidate electoral prospects.
In an earlier version of this article, we found strong results for a measure of electoral prospects under the proposed new system.
Each congressional candidate's party affiliation affects electoral prospects differentially over time and independently of individual-level factors.
And by weakening the movement's organizational infrastructure, it undermined both immediate electoral prospects and the subsequent ability to sustain a party apparatus.
This undermined the new party's electoral prospects by isolating the union movement from potential middle-class and working-class allies.
The prime minister's electoral prospects also depend on the partisan fragmentation of her existing cabinet.
The correlation between incumbent involvement with the negative factors and electoral prospects is 0.309.
She argues that central governments seek to decentralise revenues when they perceive their future electoral prospects to be best at the subnational level.
These price controls are also used by governments to enhance their electoral prospects.
However, under certain types of electoral rules, it does not necessarily improve the electoral prospects of a candidate.
Politicians who have yet to achieve a safe seat, the necessary condition for participation in legislative politics, must focus primarily on their electoral prospects.
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