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Explanation
The adjective electoral describes anything having to do with elections. When people talk about "electoral reform," they're referring to changing the way political elections work. When you see the word electoral, you can be sure that the subject is politics and elections. An electoral district, for example, is a specific geographic area that elects a representative or has its votes counted separately, and electoral fraud means rigging votes or interfering with the process of an election. Electoral comes from the noun elector, or "voter in an election." In Latin, it means "chooser or selector," from the root eligere, "select."
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This gives the chancellor a few months of respite on the electoral front.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
"When this electoral system was put in place a review mechanism was also built into that process and what we need now is to really see that review take place," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
And she raised concerns about how postal workers could feasibly scrutinize hastily redesigned mail ballots from electoral jurisdictions across the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Police officials said the money came from parliamentary funds available to lawmakers to finance special projects, usually in their electoral strongholds.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
I learned about Margaret Thatcher and the Thirty-Eighth Parallel and the Cultural Revolution; I learned about parliamentary politics and electoral systems around the world.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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