1.   His toughest challenge may be to restore a sense of unity of purpose to a divided electorate, which has grown weary of having its divisions exploited by politicians.

2.   The final hours of the presidential campaign are playing out before an almost evenly divided electorate.

3.   To detractors, it is a farce, or at least a reflection of the divided electorate.

4.   Whoever wins, of course, must deal with a capital full of angry partisans and a divided electorate.

5.   The problem for both sides is the deeply divided electorate, which has shown remarkably consistent voting patterns in the past couple of turbulent years in Russian politics.