For example the " Athens B " constituency ( which includes the major part of the Athens metropolitan area but excludes the Municipality of Athens itself, which forms the " Athens A " constituency ) encompasses almost 15 % of the country's electorate and consequently elects 42 members of parliament.

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

Males, the dominate cultural group in North America and Europe, often dominated the electorate and continue to do so in many countries.

The electorate does not generally include the entire population ; for example, many countries prohibit those judged mentally incompetent from voting, and all jurisdictions require a minimum age for voting.

* August 15 – Benjamin Disraeli's Second Reform Act enfranchises many urban working men and adds 938, 000 to an electorate of 1, 057, 000 in England and Wales.

Powell deduced from this, " As so often the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people – the underlying value of that which is traditional, that which is prescriptive ".

The Victorian Liberal Party made sure the electorate didn't forget the damage done to Victoria by the Labor Government with the very successful " Guilty Party " campaign, which targeted many Ministers in the Kirner Government and provided examples of their failures.

With its large African-American electorate, Lake Providence today remains a stronghold of the Democratic Party, after many of the conservative whites have switched to the Republican Party.

The Bill of Rights White Paper proposed that the Treaty be entrenched in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, however this proposal was never carried through to the legislation, with many Māori being concerned that this would relegate the Treaty to a lesser position, and enable the electorate ( who under the original Bill of Rights would be able to repeal certain sections by referendum ) to remove the Treaty from the Bill of Rights altogether.

Foreign powers such as the Australian government, concerned to maintain good relations with Indonesia, had been consistently reluctant to assist a push for independence ( despite popular sympathy for the East Timorese cause among many in the Australian electorate ).

To justify massive education cuts, Bennett blamed many of the province's difficulties squarely on the shoulders of public school teachers, an argument that deeply split the electorate.

Historically, the same title was used ( sometimes alternating with other styles ), notably as head of government in certain of the many constituent monarchies of pre-reunion Germany, e. g. in Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ), Lippe, Schaumburg-Lippe, in Hannover, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Reuss-Schleiz-Gera and Reuss Junior Line, electorate / kingdom Saxony, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

Maher is known for his political satire and sociopolitical commentary, which targets a wide swath of topics including religion, politics, bureaucracies of many kinds, political correctness, the mass media, greed among people and persons in positions of high political and social power, and the lack of intellectual curiosity in the electorate.

Cairns was also disliked by many in his own party, who saw him as an ideologue whose political views were too left-wing for the Australian electorate.

PC leaders such as John Diefenbaker and Joe Clark were seen by many westerners as viable challengers to the Liberals who traditionally had relied on the electorate in Quebec and Ontario for their power base.

Prior to 1984, Canada was seen as having a dominant-party system led by the Liberal Party while Progressive Conservative governments therefore were considered by many of these pundits as caretaker governments, doomed to fall once the collective mood of the electorate shifted and the federal Liberal Party eventually came back to power.

In many cases it is possible for authorities to artificially control the composition of an electorate in order to produce a foregone result.

The National Coalition as it was known offered the electorate the first alternative credible government in many years.

Until 2010, senators were elected by a plurality bloc voting method ( rare internationally, but often used in U. S. local elections ), where two or more candidates with the highest support are elected from each electorate, and each voter selects as many candidates as there are seats ( i. e., there is no proportional representation ).

Jawara ’ s origin as a member of the cobbler caste was not looked upon favorably by some within the party and the electorate who claimed to, and in many cases actually did, come from royal background.

Croatia held a referendum on independence on 19 May 1991, in which the electorate — minus many Serbs, who chose to boycott it — voted overwhelmingly for independence with the option of confederate union with other Yugoslav states.

Central to many subsequent disputes over Prop 22's effect is a distinction between statutes enacted by the legislature and initiative statutes enacted directly by the electorate.

He was accused by opponents in the party of signing up ethnic Chinese with only limited connections to the Liberal Party, many from outside the Ryan electorate, and in at least one case, outside Australia.

He prided himself on the fact that he and his forbears have lived in the electorate for many generations.

In 1832, the Reform Act was passed, abolishing many of England's " rotten " boroughs, an example of which was Old Sarum, with an electorate of seven.

Senter's administration occurred during a time when many Tennessee citizens were former Confederates who were yet to have their civil rights restored to them, vastly reducing the size of the electorate from what it was prior to the Civil War.

The Oxley Highway in New South Wales, the township of Oxley, New South Wales, the suburbs of Oxley Park, New South Wales and Oxley Vale, New South Wales, Oxley Island on the north coast of New South Wales, the Federal electorate of Oxley ( Queensland ), the New South Wales electorate of Oxley, the former Queensland electorate of Oxley, the Oxley Wild Rivers National Park, Oxley High School in Tamworth, New South Wales, Oxley Creek ( Queensland ) and the suburbs of Oxley, Queensland and Oxley, Australian Capital Territory are named after Oxley, as was the former John Oxley Memorial Hospital ( now demolished ), in Wacol, Queensland.

At a redistribution in November 1968 the electorate was abolished and a separate Division of Isaacs was created in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

The Holt electorate covers an area of approximately 145 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, in Melbourne's South Eastern suburbs, extending from Lysterfield South in the north to Cranbourne in the south.

In January 2008 he moved to Mosman against the advice of then Liberal Party leader Brendan Nelson, but stated that it would not affect his ability to represent his electorate in the city's western suburbs.

The Pensioner Settlements electorate consisted of the Auckland suburbs of Howick, Onehunga, Otahuhu, and Panmure.

He served in the first and second New Zealand Parliaments, representing the Pensioner Settlements electorate consisting of the Auckland suburbs of Howick, Onehunga, Otahuhu, and Panmure.

Melbourne and Victoria are dotted with things named in honour of La Trobe, including La Trobe University, La Trobe Street in the CBD, the federal electorate of La Trobe in Melbourne's outer eastern suburbs, the Latrobe Valley in southeastern Victoria, Mount LaTrobe in Wilsons Promontory, the La Trobe Reading Room at the State Library of Victoria, and Charles La Trobe Secondary College.

It lies in the Federal electorate of Kingsford Smith ( which covers all of south-east Sydney ), and the State electorate of Coogee ( which also includes the suburbs of Randwick, Waverley, Clovelly, Bronte, and Bondi Junction ).

The electorate is located in the upper North Shore, and includes the suburbs of Chatswood, Killara, St Ives and Turramurra.

The Federal electorate Division of Aston in Melbourne's eastern suburbs and a street in the Canberra suburb Cook are named in her honour.

The electorate includes the suburbs of Annandale, Ashfield, Dulwich Hill, Enmore, Haberfield, Hurlstone Park, Leichhardt, Marrickville, Newtown, Petersham, Stanmore and Summer Hill.

Strathfield is an urban electorate, covering 17. 94 km² and taking in the suburbs of Strathfield, Homebush, Burwood, Burwood Heights, Enfield, Croydon, Ashfield and Summer Hill.

The growth of suburbs of Manchester led to a rapidly rising electorate from the late 1950s and by the 1970 election there were 107, 225 electors and some reduction was inevitable.

The Te Atatu electorate, which covers both suburbs, was served in New Zealand Parliament by Chris Carter, who was New Zealand's first openly gay Cabinet Minister.

The electorate itself is a demographically diverse population that includes the working class suburbs of Blacktown, Lalor Park and Toongabie which are Labor leaning, as well as the high income, Liberal leaning suburbs of Kellyville Ridge, Stanhope Gardens, Glenwood, The Ponds and Kings Langley.

Prior to 2007, the electorate was largely limited to Albany and its suburbs – the additional sections were within the now abolished electorate of Stirling.