garner votes

Frequency: 6.00.9 per million words

to collect votes, especially in an election

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  • The candidate crisscrossed rural counties to garner votes from undecided farmers.
  • She hopes to garner enough votes to win outright in the first round.
  • Their reform message has garnered votes from both young and older citizens.
  • Grassroots volunteers are phone-banking nightly to garner last-minute votes.
  • If he had garnered more votes, the runoff would have been avoided.
  • We are devising a digital strategy aimed at garnering votes among first-time voters.
  • Her coalition managed to garner swing-district votes despite tough opposition.
  • Can an independent realistically garner enough votes to cross the threshold?
  • Promises of tax relief helped them garner crucial votes in the suburbs.
  • In the end, the measure garnered just 49 percent of the vote, narrowly failing.