electorate

"I'm just saying that generally speaking, the electorate doesn't particularly care about it."

Now, he's faced the Canadian electorate as a first time campaigner, won an Ottawa-area seat in the House of Commons and steered his party to an unlikely victory.

Democrats make up 45% and most of those who are unaffiliated — just about another quarter of the electorate — tend to lean Democratic.

They’ve done so by failing, repeatedly, determinedly, spectacularly to do their job, which is to maintain their independence, inform the electorate, and speak truth to power.

Now he will face the general electorate, which is concerned about Canada's rapidly shifting relationship with the US, its historically close ally, as well as the country's high cost of living.