elector
Americannoun
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a person who elects or may elect, especially a qualified voter.
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a member of the Electoral College of the U.S.
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(usually initial capital letter) one of the German princes entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
noun
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someone who is eligible to vote in the election of a government
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(often capital) a member of the US electoral college
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(often capital) (in the Holy Roman Empire) any of the German princes entitled to take part in the election of a new emperor
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Origin of elector
1425–75; late Middle English electo ( u ) r < Late Latin ēlēctor chooser, equivalent to eleg-, variant stem of ēligere ( see elect) + -tor -tor
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U.S. Government - Middle School and High School
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Earlier this month, she told a constituent who had asked why she only communicated in English that "almost every elector speaks English".
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
Xiomara Flores-Holguin was an elector Tuesday and top volunteer for Democrat George Whitesides’ congressional campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
A lone faithless elector in Washington state made it a three-way race by voting for Ronald Reagan.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024
The very first faithless elector was a guy named Sam Miles, who was chosen to vote for Adams and voted in the end for Jefferson.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024
On 5 September he managed to get hold of a telescope Galileo had sent to the elector of Cologne, and finally he saw for himself.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
They had weighed up the sentences of ineligibility for public office against the "freedom of candidacy" and the "free choice of electors", they explained.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
However, back in 2022 as Willis was still investigating Georgia’s fake electors, she was considering bringing charges against then-state Sen. Burt Jones.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2025
Around a third of electors in England are eligible to vote, and more than 1,600 councillors will be elected.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
There can be up to 120 electors invited to participate in a papal conclave.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
Besides simply counting how many people actually live in America, that census tally also determines how many seats each state gets in Congress and how many electors each state receives in a presidential election.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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