How to Use electoral in a Sentence

electoral

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• The electoral stakes were high, and not just for Mr. Menendez.
  — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• The path to 270 electoral votes and the White House would go through those states, the strategists argued.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 9 Aug. 2023
• Less than an hour later, Democrats met in the state Capitol to cast the state's 10 electoral votes for Biden.
  — Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• The far right is very good at running electoral campaigns.
  — David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024
• It’s been 31 years since the electoral voices of Black Alabamians have been heard and affirmed by The Court.
  — Cody D. Short | [e-mail], al, 8 June 2023
• Arizona, a swing state in the Nov. 5 presidential election, doesn't just hold the electoral ticket to Biden’s seat to the White House.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
• And so now the justice system and the electoral system will engage in a 15-month race to see which will decide his fate first — and the country’s.
  — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• That said, there is an electoral cost for a party being too unified.
  — Matt Harris, The Conversation, 1 June 2023
• To improve his electoral prospects, Biden badly needs to turn those figures around.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2024
• The ex-president has been seeking to undermine the electoral process since at least 2020.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
• Bukele’s path to electoral success was, frankly, a pretty simple one.
  — Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 16 Feb. 2024
• This is a case where just doing the right thing would also result in a better electoral outcome.
  — ABC News, 31 Mar. 2024
• Arizona’s 11 electoral votes and Nevada’s six will be pivotal in a contest where very few states are up for grabs.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• Instead, it is focused on rallying support in the run-up to an electoral year.
  — Elias Ferrer Breda, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• But the results in Ohio and elsewhere are leading some in the party to say that there is too great an electoral risk in supporting too strict of a ban.
  — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2023
• Shifts in what kinds of voters show up at the polls can have dramatic effects on electoral outcomes.
  — cleveland, 19 July 2023
• The House voted to elect John Quincy Adams, who received the second-most electoral votes, to the presidency.
  — Marianne Levine, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• Strategists said there could be a third option: The impeachment process against Biden could have no electoral impact at all.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Without the state’s 16 electoral votes, Mr. Biden would not have defeated his rival.
  — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Adam Schiff fact-checked over incorrect electoral claims ...
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 18 Oct. 2023
• Nearly eight months out, such a scenario is largely speculative: lots of things could change the electoral map.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2024
• Trump pressured Pence, who as vice president was to preside over Congress' Jan. 6 certification of the states' electoral votes, to block the process and send the matter back to the states.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 10 Aug. 2023
• One of the charges, obstructing the certification of the electoral vote, was included in the indictment.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2023
• The goal was to pressure Vice President Mike Pence, who was presiding over the joint session, to throw up his hands in uncertainty and return the electoral votes to the states.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
• Here’s what increased voting by mail has not done: made voting fraud more likely or undermined the electoral process.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
• The results were also announced more than three days after polls closed, prompting accusations of electoral fraud from the PTI.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
• In the nation's early days, many states awarded their electoral votes by having the state legislature choose electors.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2024
• Getting out of the electoral ‘ghetto’ Despite his arrest and conviction on fraud charges in 2013, Navalny ran for mayor of Moscow that year.
  — Regina Smyth, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
• The prime minister had spent too many years, and all those toxic electoral campaigns, exploiting and deepening the rift between them.
  — Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
• Like the races for Senate and President, speculation has already started about how the electoral math will shake out for the lower chamber.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024