1919 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 2 Nov. 1/1 Members from dry territory gave the matter vote-wise consideration.

1940 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 20 Mar. The need for directing limited funds to areas where they would do the most vote-wise good..could easily prompt acceptance of the idea that new taxes should be voted.

1942 San Antonio (Texas) Light 14 Jan. 10 b/2 Roosevelt was helped, vote-wise, by the European war and the danger that we would become involved.

1959 Punch 16 Sept. 158/2 The wing-collared politicians who emancipated women vote-wise probably had minds awhirl.

1962 Indian Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 23 369 Had there been proportional representation, the left-parties would have been in a better position, both seatwise and votewise.

2016 Guardian (Nexis) 16 May With the collapse of the Lib Dems and the mistrust that circulated around Labour, we were presented with the perfect opportunity to grow our party vote-wise.

1939 Alton (Illinois) Evening Tel. 20 June 5/7 (advt.) When a vote-wise politician starts stealing our stuff, we know we have something in Tydol's ‘prove it, don't claim it’ platform.

1947 Kiplinger Mag. Jan. 22/2 The unspectacular Yankee may find himself personally overshadowed by the more flamboyant, vote-wise figures with which the Senate abounds.

1965 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 26 Aug. 4/4 No sensible person, let alone a vote-wise politician, could advocate this kind of waste.