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.
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(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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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.

  • 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.

  • Jackson obtained the largest number of votes (99) in the electoral college (Adams receiving 84, Crawford 41 and Clay 37); but no one had an absolute majority, and it thus became the duty of the House of Representatives to choose one of the three candidates - Adams, Jackson and Crawford - who had received the greatest numbers of electoral votes.

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