Electoral College Definition

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An assembly elected by the voters to perform the formal duty of electing the president and the vice president of the United States: the electors of each state, equal in number to its members in Congress, are expected to cast their votes for the candidates selected by the popular vote in their state.
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A group of electors, chosen according to the popular vote in each state, who elect the president and the vice president of the United States.
Webster's New World Law
Every state is represented by a different number of Electors, and the number each state gets is based on how many Senators and U.S. Representatives the state has. There are always exactly two Senators in each state. The number of U.S. Representatives for individual states varies, and is determined by the number of people living in the state.
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On the day of primary election, individuals cast their vote for their chosen candidate by using a ballot.
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After the ballots are cast in the popular vote, they are tabulated and the results are issued to the electors.
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pronoun
(US, politics, informal) All of the United States' electoral colleges, considered as one body.
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(US, politics) An electoral college chosen, within a state, to formally cast that state's votes for the president and vice president of the United States.

Each state's Electoral College submits its votes to the President of the Senate.
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Alternative capitalization of electoral college..
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Other Word Forms of Electoral College

Noun

Singular:
Electoral College
Plural:
electoral-colleges

Electoral College Sentence Examples

  • The Bench of Bishops of the Church in Wales are also members of the electoral college.

  • The head of the executive is the president, chosen by an electoral college for four years, and only re-eligible after eight consecutive years.

  • The electoral College of the Church in Wales will be meeting on 7th December 1999 to elect a new archbishop of Wales.

  • This plan of creating an electoral college to select the president was expected to secure the choice by the best citizens of each state, in a tranquil and deliberate way, of the man whom they in their unfettered discretion should deem fittest to be the chief magistrate of the Union.

  • The result was close, but Cleveland carried New York, and was elected, obtaining a majority in the electoral college of 219 to 182.

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