| 单词 | electoral |
| 释义 | electoral (ɪlektərəl ) adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Electoral is used to describe things that are connected with elections. The Mongolian Democratic Party is campaigning for electoral reform. ...Italy's electoral system of proportional representation. electorally adverb [ADVERB adjective/-ed, ADVERB after verb] He believed that the policies were both wrong and electorally disastrous. Collocations: electoral appeal Liberal politicians have overrated the electoral appeal of political correctness. Times,Sunday Times The election was seen as the first test of the party's electoral appeal after two months of his leadership, and some commentators were predicting gains of 100 seats. Times, Sunday Times Postponing the 2p fuel duty rise this autumn has an obvious electoral appeal though it would send a bad fiscal and green signal. Times, Sunday Times These families maintained their electoral appeal by cultivating strong client-patron relations with their local communities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was disenfranchised as a result of electoral corruption. Times, Sunday Times His government was forced to resign in 1894, however, due to allegations of electoral corruption in the previous year's election. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was known, in a time when electoral corruption was rife, as a man of great integrity and probity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He spoke out against electoral corruption. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Electoral corruption in the late republic. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Among the opposition demands was that the national electoral council, which tallies the votes, be reformed. Times, Sunday Times They also want early presidential elections, supervised by an independent electoral council. Times, Sunday Times The national electoral council announced that the referendum could only be held 'in the middle of the first quarter of 2017'. Times, Sunday Times The electoral council said this went against the spirit of proxy voting, which should only be used at the initiative of the voter. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The provisional electoral council said that electoral law requires candidates to register in person. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But, in his haste to meet the demands of the electoral cycle, the president may have conceded too much ground. Times,Sunday Times The indictment comes at a crucial moment in the electoral cycle, with fewer than 60 days to the first nominating votes. Times, Sunday Times Not that any politician would allow the electoral cycle to influence such an important decision on the public finances. Times, Sunday Times We need, at this stage of the electoral cycle, to consider carefully what comes next. Times, Sunday Times That's an alien notion for featherbedded ministers riding the five-year electoral cycle. Times, Sunday Times But on style, the people who should be his strongest supporters instead see him as dour, dull and deceitful: an electoral disaster. Times, Sunday Times This toughness might have been a recipe for electoral disaster even two years ago. Times, Sunday Times Left-of-centre parties the world over might learn from this electoral disaster. Times, Sunday Times When she became a media darling, political pundits predicted electoral disaster but the voters thought otherwise. Times, Sunday Times It has apparently learnt nothing from the obloquy and electoral disaster to which this perverse stance has helped consign it. Times,Sunday Times However, by the time of the poll one of these had been disqualified and another had withdrawn fearing electoral fraud. Times, Sunday Times She was briefly jailed in 2003 for electoral fraud. Times, Sunday Times Votes are routinely rigged and legal challenges to blatant electoral fraud are rejected by the courts. Times, Sunday Times His rivals again claimed there had been electoral fraud, but, on this occasion, most international observers said that the result was broadly representative. Times, Sunday Times Political opposition has challenged his leadership and led to accusations of human rights violations and electoral fraud. Times, Sunday Times Far from criticising others for talking the economy down, politicians are now talking it up for electoral gain. The Sun They can therefore with complete confidence anticipate a boost in popularity or an electoral gain. The Times Literary Supplement Internationally the election result was seen as part of a wider trend of electoral gain for eurosceptic and far right parties in the election. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As the economy remains in recession, parties of the extremes threaten to make big electoral gains. Times, Sunday Times Great powers lose their bearings when they favour short-term electoral gains over existential challenges from global rivals. Times, Sunday Times Electoral law dictates that recounts are allowed at the discretion of returning officers. Times, Sunday Times I suppose that such intimations against an opponent do not transgress the electoral law. Times, Sunday Times At least one polling station broke strict electoral law by handing out ballot papers after the 10pm deadline. Times, Sunday Times To top it all, he proposes constitutional changes, including a weakening of the senate and a new electoral law. Times, Sunday Times Under electoral law, candidates are not allowed to know the results of postal votes before the count. Times,Sunday Times A strong government, with a clear electoral mandate, might seem more important than ever today. Times, Sunday Times These priorities are meant to bring about focus and ensure sufficient emphasis on the most critical areas of the electoral mandate. ST The need for a fresh electoral mandate will gain momentum in this way. Times, Sunday Times Yet the new leaders have no electoral mandate. Times, Sunday Times The necessary remedial measures will be attempted by politicians with an electoral mandate, not by appointed technocrats. Times, Sunday Times In the face of poor poll numbers, he was instead preparing for potential defeat by telling voters they should be sceptical of an electoral outcome. Times,Sunday Times But it reminds me of the embarrassing approach this very newspaper took to the general election of 1997, which was the last time an electoral outcome was this predictable. Times, Sunday Times The website provided maps and statistics about the electoral outcomes in each state as well as nationally. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 What others consider the realities of electoral politics don't count as realities in their world. Times, Sunday Times The quest for victory in electoral politics tends to favour the bland. Times, Sunday Times It was the first time a holder of his office had intervened in electoral politics. Times,Sunday Times But in yesterday's speech we saw the upside of the freedom from shortterm electoral politics that he clearly feels. Times, Sunday Times Despite globalisation, electoral politics remains, if not always local, then at least national, not transatlantic. Times, Sunday Times Yet as we report today, concerns about the sanctity of the electoral process are again being expressed. Times, Sunday Times That could yet happen, but to date the internationally supervised electoral process has proved as shambolic as everything else in this benighted country. Times, Sunday Times Some argue that false charges could be used to exclude people from the electoral process. Times, Sunday Times Pressing ahead will introduce partisanship to a previously uncontroversial electoral process. Times,Sunday Times Or perhaps we shouldn't base decisions about the electoral process on the quirks of insects. Times, Sunday Times The party's electoral prospects took more than a decade to recover. Times, Sunday Times Some cabinet ministers are worried that growing confidence about the party's electoral prospects might produce a cautious manifesto. Times, Sunday Times He then offered cold comfort for ministers fearful over the impact of the still worsening economic outlook on their electoral prospects. Times, Sunday Times Labour would need to 'atone for its past', appeal to middle class voters and work on its economic credibility to boost its electoral prospects, it added. Times, Sunday Times The movement became a party with real electoral prospects during the 2010 regional elections, with four regional councillors being elected. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His party has pledged to hold a referendum on electoral reform. Mail and Guardian No 10 has dangled an immediate prospect of a referendum on electoral reform. Times, Sunday Times Labour were unlikely to deliver every last backbench vote necessary to secure electoral reform. Times, Sunday Times The careful choreography was the most persuasive argument yet for coalitions and electoral reform. Times, Sunday Times You say you're serious on electoral reform, but we've been here before. Times, Sunday Times As an electoral strategy it worked for a while; as a financial plan it proved disastrous. Times, Sunday Times Any doubts about the electoral strategy behind it were erased almost before it was over. Times, Sunday Times In fact the backbenchers want to talk policy and electoral strategy. Times, Sunday Times He describes his own electoral strategy as 'put heads on pikes, do programmes afterwards'. Times, Sunday Times In both cases they concluded that a broadly moderate, centre position was superior as an electoral strategy and a governing philosophy. Times, Sunday Times Yesterday afternoon, some of the more mundane decisions that come with electoral success began to become clear. Times, Sunday Times But above all else it was the gaining and retention of economic credibility that led to electoral success. Times, Sunday Times But the proudest politician needs the butter of electoral success to sweeten the parsnips of high principle. Times, Sunday Times For that seems to be his route map to electoral success. Times, Sunday Times Second, there were other social conservatives who were seen as having a greater chance of electoral success. Christianity Today It has a realistic chance of gaining electoral support. Times, Sunday Times That will be a party, if he succeeds, with scant electoral support and maximal ideological silliness. Times, Sunday Times Labour's electoral support, he believed, was peaking, 'though it might have been a submerged peak', he told the programme. Times, Sunday Times The corporation has decided that the far-right party deserves more airtime because it has demonstrated 'electoral support at a national level'. Times, Sunday Times It was as if he had realised, finally, that to achieve broad electoral support you need to make the odd concession. Times, Sunday Times The two-party system is cosy and corrupt, protected by the electoral system. Times, Sunday Times (2014) A different electoral system is preferable: my own choice would be the single transferable vote. Times, Sunday Times (2007) It has been sustained by tribalism, the adaptiveness of the two parties and the electoral system. Times, Sunday Times (2018) And the electoral system, where supporters have as much say as members, has led to possible entryism. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Changing that means changing the entire electoral system and odds are we'll need an aboveground commission to get that done. Globe and Mail (2003) Electoral turnout in liberal democracies has been falling for many years. The Times Literary Supplement In an age when democracies want to increase electoral turnout, going back to basics may not be that bad an idea. Times, Sunday Times The electoral turnout presents a compelling imperative to ignore it. Times, Sunday Times In the 2012 local council elections, the electoral turnout was 35.93%. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Despite some fears of voter fatigue, electoral turnout was comparable with previous elections at 59.99%. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His electoral victory in 2011 was widely seen as a sham. Times, Sunday Times I do not want to mince my words, we did not achieve our electoral victory. Times, Sunday Times Nevertheless, the candidate of the opposition declared electoral victory following a very complicated and questionable election in the municipality. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the general elections of 1987 he led his party to electoral victory and back to power. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His nearly unanimous electoral victory for reelection in 1820 seemed to confirm this. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 与选举有关的 Japanese: 選挙の |
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