Questions & Answers about El electorado votó.
Electorado means the electorate: the body of people who are eligible to vote in an election.
It is a collective noun, so even though it refers to many people, Spanish treats it as a singular noun grammatically.
In context, El electorado votó means the electorate voted.
Because electorado refers to the voting population as one group, not to individual voters one by one.
So:
- el electorado = the electorate / the voting public
- los votantes = the voters
Spanish often uses a singular collective noun where English may also use a collective expression.
Because the subject is el electorado, and that noun is grammatically singular.
So Spanish uses the third person singular form:
- El electorado votó = The electorate voted
If the subject were plural, the verb would be plural too:
- Los votantes votaron = The voters voted
This is a very common point in Spanish: grammar follows the noun form, not necessarily the number of people in real life.