rural voter
collocation in Englishmeaningsofruralandvoter
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rural
adjective
uk/ˈrʊə.rəl/us/ˈrʊr.əl/
in, of, or like ...
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voter
noun[C]
uk/ˈvəʊ.tər/us/ˈvoʊ.t̬ɚ/
a person who votes or who has a legal right to vote, especially in ...
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(Definition ofruralandvoterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Aruralvoterbelonging to a smaller constituency has a slightly greater degree of power than the urban voter who belongs to a larger constituency.
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Over the past 20 years, and perhaps longer, we have witnessed the ascendency of the urban voter over theruralvoter.
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In this election, rural voters voted overwhelmingly for the incumbent and urban voters did the opposite.
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The anticipated division between the partisan sentiments of urban and rural voters shows the predicted pattern among core voters.
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He was unlikely, they argued, to appeal to rural voters; nor was he likely to gather votes in areas of high unemployment.
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For the majority of rural voters, therefore, the cut and thrust of political debate was largely absent.
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Rural voters, although higher numbers of them profess to care about democracy, seem to view candidates favorably when they bring tangible benefits to the district.
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Using the four-point urban-rural scale, we find reform to be no more important an issue for urban than rural voters.
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There is a resonance between urban and rural voters.
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They are not honest about that because they are deeply concerned about what rural voters will think about the abolition of the road tax.
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By opposing the projected increase in the tax on petrol they may have helped their rural voters, but they have not helped the cause of energy conservation.
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It will be very difficult to conduct a postal ballot in such areas—although it may also be very rewarding, because rural voters often benefit most from postal ballots.
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In such circumstances, he would find it difficult not to take the interests of rural voters into account, and would not want to disregard them anyway.
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Yet great inequities remained between urban and rural voters.
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Rural voters pushed for a centralized location in neither town.
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In 1947, however, he placed third in his district after a strategy targeting rural voters.
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Suburban votes then come to outweigh inner city votes, just as, a century earlier, urbanization or urban colonialization diminished the power of rural voters.
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His humble origins as a village farmer inspired support among rural voters, who made up over four-fifths of the population.
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Rural voters criticize his tenure in the legislature for casting a deciding vote that ended the practice of allowing for at least one state senator or delegate per county.
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