have been electing
- present perfect progressive of elect.
Example Sentences
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Those changes, Hayter said, have made it less surprising that voters have been electing more diverse candidates in the district — but no less important.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2023
Results are also due on Friday and Saturday from Northern Ireland, where voters have been electing members of the Northern Irish Assembly.
From BBC ● May 6, 2022
The Parliament is the bloc’s only directly elected institution, and voters have been electing lawmakers to the body since 1979, when the union was much smaller.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
“For 200 years in this country we have been electing one kind of prosecutor,” said José Garza, who last fall was elected district attorney of Travis County, Texas, which includes Austin.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
All of it can be traced back to the system under which we have been electing our United States Senators.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
