the ... votea) the black/Jewish/middle-class etc vote black, Jewish etc voters, or their votes 黑人/犹太人/中产阶级等选民[选票] The black vote is astonishingly loyal to the Democratic Party. 黑人选民对民主党出奇地忠诚。
b) the Labour/Conservative/Green etc vote British EnglishBrE the total number of votes the Labour Party, Conservative Party etc win in an election 工党/保守党/绿党等获得的选票 The Green vote looks likely to increase again. 绿党选票看来有可能再次增加。
the Labour/Conservative/Green etc vote• Although the Labour vote was still six million, its numbers were lower than at any time since 1910.• The ardent left-winger helped launch the Red Wedge pop-meets-politics movement to boost the Labour vote in the 1987 general election.• But the Green vote has disintegrated.• But anti-Tory feeling in a recession-battered area has polarised the Labour vote to his disadvantage.• Her great threat to the Howard government is to split the conservative vote three ways.
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