Electorate all the people in a country or area who are entitled to vote in an electionThe people are an electorate , they are not however the electorate of this the authority to carry out a policy or course of action , regarded as given by the electorate to a candidate or party that is victorious in an election . If they were the electorate of that , then Hiliary would have won , but she didn ' t , because the electorate that presents that authority in the US is the electoral college The name itself should be self explanatory which is also a group of people entitled to vote . Refer back to the definition of electorate if you ' re still in denial Does that help you understand it a little better ? I can try and simplify it more for you if it ' s too difficult