Electoral
Electoral adjective - Of or relating to elections.
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Synonyms for Electoral
Voting and electoral are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Voting" instead an adjective "Electoral".
Nearby Words: electorate, elector
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Related pairs
- constituent and electoral
- constituent and voting
- democratic and electoral
- democratic and voting
- citizen and electoral
- citizen and voting
- official and electoral
- official and voting
- voluntary and electoral
- voluntary and voting
- selective and electoral
- selective and voting
- election and electoral
- election and voting
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- Ever since, however, Electors have all been sworn to support a single candidate each, making the Electoral College a simple layer of abstraction in voting for the President mostly-directly.
- The Australian electoral system, which combines compulsory voting with a preferential voting system, has the problem of so-called "donkey voting", where people alienated from the political system simply write one-two-three-four-five... in the boxes on the ballot paper from top to bottom.
Source: Default Setting Syndrome -
Voters in most states did not vote directly for a specific person for president, instead voting for electors who were pledged to support that candidate when the time came for the Electoral College to elect the President for real.
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Voting and Electoral. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/electoral/voting
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