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Democrat cast a ballot in English city with loyalty (9)

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I believe the answer is:

devotedly

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'democrat cast a ballot in english city with loyalty' is the definition.
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'democrat cast a ballot in english city' is the wordplay.
'democrat' becomes 'd'.
'cast a ballot' becomes 'voted' (I've seen this in another clue).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'english city' becomes 'Ely' (I've seen this in another clue).
'voted' inserted into 'ely' is 'evotedly'.
'd'+'evotedly'='DEVOTEDLY'

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(Another definition for devotedly that I've seen is " Loyally".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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