Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.

It was thought that if the Conservatives were able to secure this piece of legislation, then the newly enfranchised electorate may return their gratitude to the Tories in the form of a Conservative vote at the next general election.

Eddie Milne at Blyth ( Northumberland ) and Dick Taverne in Lincoln were both victims of such intrigues during the 1970s, but in both cases there was enough of a local outcry by party members – and the electorate – for them to fight and win their seats as independent candidates against the official Labour candidates.

The country was governed during most of its first 150 years of independent life by different forms of restricted government, where the electorate was carefully vetted and controlled by an elite.

The split with Mebyon Kernow was down to the same debate that was occurring in most of the political parties campaigning for autonomy from the United Kingdom at the time ( for example the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru ), whether to be a centre-left party appealing to the electorate on a social democratic line, or whether to appeal emotionally on a centre-right cultural line.

Another subject of the split was whether to embrace devolution as a first step to full independence ( or as the sole step if this was what the electorate wished ) or for it to be " all or nothing ".

In the presence of a UN observer team, a referendum was held on August 11, 1968, and 63 % of the electorate voted in favor of the constitution, which provided for a government with a General Assembly and a Supreme Court with judges appointed by the president.

These ranged from Royalists who wished to place King Charles II on the throne, to men like Oliver Cromwell, who wished to govern with a Parliament voted in by an electorate determined by property ownership, similar to that enfranchised before the civil war, to the Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, who wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate constituted of every head of household ( normally though not necessarily male as was acknowledged in the Putney Debates ), through to other groups with smaller followings like the Fifth Monarchists, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

In a referendum held in 2002, a proposal for shared sovereignty was overwhelmingly rejected by the Gibraltar electorate with 98. 97 % voting against.

However, a referendum on devolution in 1979 was unsuccessful as it did not achieve the support of 40 % of the electorate ( despite a small majority of those who voted supporting the proposal.

However, a referendum on devolution in 1979 was unsuccessful as it did not achieve the necessary support of 40 per cent of the electorate ( despite a small majority of those who voted supporting the proposal ) and the SNP went into electoral decline during the 1980s.

The transfer of power from Menzies to Holt in February 1966 was smooth and unproblematic, and at the federal election later that year the electorate overwhelmingly endorsed Holt, giving the Holt-McEwen Coalition government a 41-seat majority, the largest in Australian history at the time.

Originally, the Duke held the electorate personally, but it was later made hereditary along with the duchy.

When the Thirty Years ' War concluded with the Treaty of Münster ( also called the Peace of Westphalia ) in 1648, a new electorate was created for the Count Palatine of the Rhine.

But the restored elector of Hesse ( a new electorate ) tried to get recognition to title of king ( King of Chatti ), and was unsuccessful in that pursuit.

The Elector of Bavaria replaced the Elector Palatine in 1623, but when the latter was granted a new electorate in 1648, there was a dispute between the two as to which was vicar.

This was accompanied, though, with a widespread public opposition, which resulted in two referenda, one on pensions, the other on constitutional amendments, which would have allowed the electorate to initiate the dissolution of the parliament.

But the ensuing uproar in Parliament had a lasting impression on the electorate, and was a decisive factor in the Liberal government's defeat at the hands of the PCs, led by John Diefenbaker, in the 1957 election.

Although the opposition campaign was hurt by the desire of the Mexican electorate for stability, following the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the intended PRI candidate, and the recent outbreak of hostilities in the state of Chiapas, Zedillo's share of the vote was the lowest official percentage for any PRI presidential candidate up to that time.

After the Congress of Vienna, most of the territory was given to the electorate of Hesse, and in 1866 was, with the latter, annexed to Prussia.

No less than three of the ( originally only seven ) prince-electors, the highest order of Reichsfürsten ( comparable in rank with the French pairs ), were prince-archbishops, each holding the title of Archchancellor ( the only archoffice amongst them ) for a part of the Empire ; given the higher importance of an electorate, their principalities were known as Kurfürstentum (' electoral principality ') rather than prince-archbishoprics:

In this sense, the ROC government currently administering Taiwan is not the same ROC which accepted Japanese surrender because the ruling authorities were given popular mandate by different pools of constituencies: one is the mainland Chinese electorate, the other is the Taiwanese constituencies.

There was a debate within the Alliance, given the poll ratings of less than 1 %, as to whether the Alliance should contest the list vote in the 2005 elections, or instead only stand in electorate seats and encourage its supporters to use their list vote to support the Greens or the Māori Party.

In the Canadian federal election, 2006, after a decade of work, the Conservatives seemed to attain their goal of being an electable " United Alternative " when they were given a minority government by the electorate.

A swing can be calculated for the electorate as a whole, or for a given electoral district or demographic.

With the electorate simply given a choice of two different dams, approximately 33 % of the electorate voted informal by writing " No Dams " on their ballot paper.

Goyder's name has also been given to a district council, an electorate, the new pavilion at the Royal Adelaide Showgrounds, several streets, a park and the Goyder Institute for Water Research.

Goyder's name has also been given to a district council, an electorate, the new pavilion at the Royal Adelaide Showgrounds, several streets, a park and the Goyder Institute for Water Research.

The right of separate electorate was given to the Muslims.

" while a 1911 Encyclopædia describes it as " specifically used in politics of the power given to the electorate of a particular district to choose whether licences for the sale of intoxicating liquor should be granted or not.

He decided to contest Macquarie at the first federal election in 1901 but was given little chance of victory by observers and the local press, who pointed to his earlier anti-federal views and his recent electoral losses as proof that he exercised little influence amongst the electorate.

For the first half of its life the Liberal Party was comparatively conservative, and saw its task primarily in terms of changing the minds of the white electorate.

In 1950, the U. S. Congress gave Puerto Ricans the right to organize a constitutional convention, contingent on the results of a referendum, where the electorate would determine if they wished to organize their own government pursuant to a constitution of their own choosing.

The electorate gave no candidate a majority, and the General Court ended up choosing Bowdoin over the others in bitterly divisive voting.

There are examples of electoral confusion caused by would-be candidates deliberately choosing similar names to confuse the electorate, hence potentially affecting the outcome of an election.

In such cases, it is not required ( or even possible ) that the members of the electorate be familiar with all of the eligible persons, though such systems may involve indirect elections at larger geographic levels to ensure that some first-hand familiarity among potential electees can exist at these levels ( i. e., among the elected delegates ).

In Australia, which uses a single transferable vote proportional representation system, they avoided the need for an electoral threshold by establishing smaller electorates with each multi-member electorate returning fewer members of a Parliament and as such requiring a higher quota percentage in order to be elected.

This work described several now famous results, including Condorcet's jury theorem, which states that if each member of a voting group is more likely than not to make a correct decision, the probability that the highest vote of the group is the correct decision increases as the number of members of the group increases, and Condorcet's paradox, which shows that majority preferences become intransitive with three or more options – it is possible for a certain electorate to express a preference for A over B, a preference for B over C, and a preference for C over A, all from the same set of ballots.

Therefore, between 1750 and 1978 Southwark had two persons ( the Alderman and the Recorder ) who were members of the City's Court of Aldermen and Common Council who were elected neither by the City freemen or by the Southwark electorate but appointed by the Court of Aldermen.

Its county or regional assembly is the highest political body in the region and its members are elected by the electorate, as opposed to the county administrative board, that guards the national interests in the county under the chairmanship of the county governor ( landshövding in Swedish ).

The federal electorate has returned Labor members continuously since 1934, including former Prime Minister John Curtin, and is currently represented by Melissa Parke.

There was some initial criticism from Labor members in the electorate, as this overrode the local branch's wishes.

The four Māori electorates were held by Rātana-affiliated members of Labour for decades: until 1963 for the Eastern Maori electorate, 1980 for Northern Maori, and 1996 for Western and Southern Maori electorates.

The members of this chamber are elected at large by the entire electorate.

The unpopularity with the electorate of Jacques Chirac and Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government led most members of the UMP to support Nicolas Sarkozy, a rival of Chirac.

Having joined the National Party in 1975, Shipley successfully stood for the Ashburton electorate in the 1987 election, entering parliament at age 35, at the time one of parliament's youngest members.

Of the one hundred members of the House of Assembly, seventy-two were ' common roll ' members for whom the electorate was every adult citizen.

Forza Italia's organization was based on the idea of a " party of the elected people ", giving more importance to the whole electorate than to party's members.

There were also claims of Golkar members intimidating the electorate to vote for Golkar.

Despite officially favouring it, vast numbers of members opposed the establishment of an assembly, and this division caused the failure to reach the required 40 % of the electorate voting in favour of an assembly ( that itself was a quota only added to the Scotland Act by an amendment proposed by a Labour MP ).

The Constitution of Afghanistan guarantees at least 64 delegates to be female in the lower house of the bicameral National Assembly (" The elections law shall adopt measures to attain, through the electorate system, general and fair representation for all the people of the country, and proportionate to the population of very province, on average, at least two females shall be the elected members of the House of People from each province.

By the mid 1790s the society had around 3, 000 members, which was then more than the entire electorate of Scotland.

The ballot was held amongst a restricted electorate of Labour MSPs and members of Scottish Labour's national executive, because there was insufficient time for a full election to be held.

In these six jurisdictions a civil electorate, composed of the members of the minority faith, elects separate school trustees according to the province's or territory's local authorities election legislation.

The Assembly consists of 88 members, each coming from a single-member electorate.

The Council has 42 members, elected by proportional representation in which the whole state is treated as a single electorate.

Initially rejected by the council, the reform created a single state-wide electorate of 22 members, with half being elected each time.

By having multiple members for each electorate, the voting intentions of the electors are correspondingly represented in the parliament.