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psephologist

American  
[see-fahl-uhj-ist] / siˈfɑl ədʒ ɪst /

noun

  • psephologists
    plural
  1. a person with expertise in psephology.


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"The message which has gone out is that India has really emerged very strong in the world," said Sanjay Kumar, psephologist at New Delhi's Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.

From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2023

In a 63-page memo to the court, they explained their rationale for the changes in painstaking detail, including enough voting data to sate the most ardent psephologist.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2022

And the eminent psephologist Sir John Curtice believes that the government's handling of Windrush could adversely affect Conservative performance in the capital.

From BBC ● May 3, 2018

Sam Wang, a neuroscience professor at Princeton and part-time psephologist, kept a pre-election promise to eat an insect on live television if Mr Trump won more than 240 electoral-college votes.

From Economist ● Jun. 15, 2017

She mentions an article that famously accurate US psephologist Nate Silver published on his website, fivethirtyeight.com.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2016

However, psephologists scoured the Gorton and Denton result for clues on how a nationwide vote might play out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

The prospective coalition that had, until today, tickled the passions of psephologists everywhere was a binding together of the Labour Party and the Scottish National Party, or S.N.P.

From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2015

It is most unlikely that Ukip's performance will be reflected in first-past-the-post seats at a general election, whatever the psephologists say.

From The Guardian ● May 28, 2014

Still - his career is going to end up being studied by psychologists, rather than psephologists.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2010

So slim is Prime Minister Harold Wilson's margin in the House of Commons that the slightest setback to his Labor Party's fortunes sends psephologists excitedly to their charts and Tory planners jubilantly to their megaphones.

From Time Magazine Archive

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