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- noun An
expert inpsephology
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- noun a sociologist who studies election trends
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Examples
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Not the usual sort of criticisms we expect from a statistician and psephologist.
Global Voices in English » Australia: Playing Political Bingo with Boat People 2009
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If an election were held now, a leading psephologist believes Miliband's party would win outright.
Vindication for Ed Miliband is in the air | Polly Toynbee 2011
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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 2011
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Yogendra Yadav, a well-known psephologist breaks some of the myths in this article published by the BBC.
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To the amateur psephologist who is bemoaning Hillary's real electoral advantage: 56% of W. Virginian's are Democrats.
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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? Jeff 2009
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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.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jeff 2009
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But as always, the Indian voter may surprise the cautious certitude of the psephologist and the less restrained TV anchor.
Security Challenges for New Government C Uday Bhaskar 2009
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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 Jeff 2007
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Personally, I just want to find out what psephologist means ...!
Guest publication Jeff 2007
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In the middle of these swirling democratic processes will be researchers who study public sentiment and voting patterns, known as psephologists.
What the science of elections can reveal in this super-election year Benjamin Plackett 2024
qms commented on the word psephologist
While some are ill-hidden apologists,
And some are mystics or phrenologists,
Their common vernacular
Is Pompous Oracular.
All claim to be expert psephologists.
November 4, 2014