El electorado consultó el censo electoral.

Electorado means the electorate: the body of people who are allowed to vote.

It refers to many people, but grammatically it is treated as a singular collective noun in Spanish. That is why the verb is singular:

• El electorado consultó... = The electorate checked/consulted...

So even though it represents lots of voters, Spanish treats el electorado as one collective group.

Spanish often uses the definite article el / la / los / las more often than English does.

Here:

• el electorado = the electorate
• el censo electoral = the electoral register / voter roll

In this sentence, both are specific nouns, so the definite article is natural and expected.

Consultó is the pretérito indefinido form of consultar for él / ella / usted.

Conjugation:

• yo consulté
• tú consultaste
• él/ella/usted consultó
• nosotros consultamos
• vosotros consultasteis
• ellos/ellas/ustedes consultaron

Because the subject is el electorado, which is singular, the verb must also be singular:

• El electorado consultó...

The preterite is used because this describes a completed action in the past.

The accent mark shows both pronunciation and meaning.

• consultó = he/she/it consulted, you consulted (formal), past tense
• consulto = I consult or consultant in some contexts, depending on usage

So the accent helps distinguish the past-tense verb form from other forms and tells you the stress falls on the last syllable:

• con-sul-TÓ

Sometimes yes, but in Spanish it is often broader and more common than in English.

In a sentence like this, consultar often means:

• to check
• to look up
• to refer to
• to consult

So consultó el censo electoral may sound more natural in English as:

• checked the electoral register rather than always literally consulted the electoral register.

El censo electoral is the official register of people who are allowed to vote.

Depending on context, it can be translated as:

• the electoral register
• the voter register
• the voter roll

In Spain, this is a standard administrative term, so censo electoral is a fixed and very common expression.

It may feel repetitive in English, but in Spanish it is perfectly normal here.

The two parts mean different things:

• electorado = the voters as a group
• censo electoral = the official list connected to elections

So the repetition is not awkward; it just reflects two standard political terms. Spanish often keeps these official expressions intact even if English might avoid repeating a similar idea.

Yes, but the nuance changes slightly.

• El electorado focuses on voters as one collective body
• Los electores focuses more on individual voters

So:

• El electorado consultó el censo electoral = the electorate, as a group, checked the register
• Los electores consultaron el censo electoral = the voters checked the register

Both are possible, but el electorado sounds a bit more formal, institutional, or political.

No, this is a very standard Spanish sentence pattern:

• El electorado = subject
• consultó = verb
• el censo electoral = direct object

So it follows a normal subject + verb + object order, just like English:

• The electorate consulted/checked the electoral register

That makes the sentence structurally straightforward for learners.

In standard Peninsular Spanish, approximately:

• El electorado consultó el censo electoral
• eh-leh-lehk-toh-RAH-doh con-sool-TOH el THEN-soh eh-lehk-toh-RAL

A few useful pronunciation points for Spain:

• c before e in censo is usually pronounced like th in think
• electorado has the stress on -ra-
• consultó has the stress on the final -tó
• electoral has the stress on the last syllable: -ral

If you are learning Spain Spanish, the c in censo is one of the main pronunciation features to notice.