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psephologist

[ UK /sɛfˈɒləd‍ʒˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sociologist who studies election trends

How To Use psephologist In A Sentence

  • To the amateur psephologist who is bemoaning Hillary's real electoral advantage: 56% of W. Virginian's are Democrats. Why West Virginians turned out for Clinton
  • I recently learned that I am a psephologist which until then I thought was something that carried a 20 year maximum jail term. The end of the tactical voting road
  • A natural psephologist, she memorises every constituency, candidate and outcome obsessively. Times, Sunday Times
  • In an election now, the leading psephologist Professor John Curtice reckons Labour could win outright. Vindication for Ed Miliband is in the air | Polly Toynbee
  • Roughly 11m people a day read the Sun, people said by most psephologists to matter crucially at elections because most are swing voters without a firm party allegiance.
  • It's not unreasonable for a sharp-eyed psephologist to have foreseen that Andrew Wilson had pushed that constituency as hard as the SNP could have hoped for in 2003 so the swing was always going to go in Labour's direction in 2007, despite Jamie Hepburn's best efforts. Can you predict elections?
  • Every single psephologist, political pundit and pollster must now resign, be sacked, or better yet, commit suicide.
  • Personally, I just want to find out what psephologist means ...! Guest publication
  • Even in this unique double Holyrood / Westminster ballot - a psephologist's gift - there was not one single opinion poll in the entire campaign.
  • Of course, no psephologist makes serious predictions until a few days before an election; too much can happen to change things.
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