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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
elector
noun
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▪ As this summary description of the system implies, every elector has two votes.
▪ But in the teacher contest the electors can cast as many votes as they wish.
▪ Elections are said to limit Parliament because they give power to electors who ignorantly demand ever more state intervention.
▪ However, at addresses where the number of electors had changed, the probability of any individual being selected had also changed.
▪ In the 1983 election, more electors thought the Conservatives had the better policies than actually voted for the party.
▪ None the less, class remained the most important predictor of how an elector might vote.
▪ Since there are 538 electors, 270 votes are necessary to win the presidency.
▪ The truth is that electors are not a deliberative group like representatives or senators.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elector

Elector \E*lect"or\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]lectoral.] Pertaining to an election or to electors.

In favor of the electoral and other princes.
--Burke.

Electoral college, the body of princes formerly entitled to elect the Emperor of Germany; also, a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electors chosen by the people to elect the President and Vice President.

Elector

Elector \E*lect"or\, n. [L., fr. eligere: cf. F. ['e]lecteur.]

  1. One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office.

  2. Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.

  3. In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor.

  4. One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
elector

"one who elects or has the right of choice," mid-15c., from Latin elector "chooser, selecter," agent noun from past participle stem of eligere "to pick out, choose" (see election).

Wiktionary
elector

alt. 1 A person eligible to vote in an election. 2 An official serving in an electoral college or similar assembly. 3 (context historical English) In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor. n. 1 A person eligible to vote in an election. 2 An official serving in an electoral college or similar assembly. 3 (context historical English) In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor.

WordNet
elector
  1. n. a citizen who has a legal right to vote [syn: voter]

  2. any of the German princes who were entitled to vote in the election of new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

Wikipedia
Elector

Elector may refer to:

  • Prince-elector or elector, a member of the electoral college of the Holy Roman Empire, having the function of electing the Holy Roman Emperors
  • Elector, a member of the Electoral college
  • Elector, a member of the Electoral College (Confederate States), which elected the President Jefferson Davis, and Vice President Alexander H. Stephens
  • Elector, a member of the Electoral College (United States), which formally chooses the President of the United States
  • Elector, a science fiction novella by Charles Stross, incorporated into Accelerando (novel)

Usage examples of "elector".

But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

It would avoid the inconvenience of securing advance nominations from absent delegates, and the impracticality of associating them with the assembled electors in the subsequent ballots that are often required to meet the exigencies of majority vote.

Decree of the Aulic Council against the Elector of Hanover and others.

As little formidable were the denunciations of the emperor, who had, by a decree of the Aulic council, communicated to the diet certain mandates, issued in the month of August in the preceding year, on pain of the ban of the empire, with avocatory letters annexed against the king of Great Britain, elector of Hanover, and the other princes acting in concert with the king of Prussia.

In order to render the king of Poland, elector of Saxony, propitious to this design, he was accommodated with the loan of a very considerable sum, upon the mortgage of certain bailiwicks and lordships belonging to the Saxon dominions.

Afterwards he was in the service of the Elector Palatine, furnishing the Bibliotheca Palatina in Heidelberg.

Senator Bryk, your members have been complaining about the number of their electors coming to speak to them about these Morlider rumours.

It was about that time that my brother Jean came to Venice with Guarienti, a converted Jew, a great judge of paintings, who was travelling at the expense of His Majesty the King of Poland, and Elector of Saxony.

A lady whom I did not know said the portrait represented the Elector of Cologne in his robes as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.

The two Electors who had received certificates of their election then obtained a certified copy of the returns, met and elected Watts to fill the vacancy, and then proceeded to cast three votes for Hayes.

After a little more talk, Lake and the Town Clerk resumed their electioneering conference, and the lists of electors were passed under their scrutiny, name by name, like slides under the miscroscope.

Six months afterwards she summoned me to Venice, as she wished to see me before leaving for Dresden, where she had contracted an engagement for life in the service of the Elector of Saxony, Augustus III.

The count was saying that the Elector had been asking who had broken the bank, and that General Kettler had expressed his opinion that it was a Venetian who had been in Cologne for the last week.

Elector had given me such an order, I should, of course, have obeyed him, but I should have felt it a humiliating part to play.

He promised to write to me at Mannheim, where I had decided on spending a week to see my beloved Algardi, who was in the service of the Elector.