Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: In 1972 votes were cast by fifty-five percent of the electorate

In 1972 votes were cast by fifty-five percent of theelectorate; and forty percent in 1996.

(A) electorate; and forty percent in1996

- Portion after semicolon should have verb, which is missing in this case

(B) electorate; in 1996 the figure was fortypercent

- CORRECT, portion after semicolon fixes the above verb issue

(C) electorate, and in 1996 forty percent

- missing verb to create a parallel structure
(D) electorate, forty percent in 1996 was the figure

- missing a conjunction in order to
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