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Electoral College en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (US) An electoral college chosen, within a state, to formally cast that state's votes for the president and vice president of the United States.
   • In later years Colonel Kent has been much in public life. He was an alternate delegate to the National Convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and in 1864 a member of the New Hampshire Electoral College, voting for Lincoln and Johnson. 1898, Charles N. Kent, “Field and Staff of the Seventeenth”, in History of the Seventeenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1863, Concord, N.H., →OCLC, page 44:
   • Oliver Wolcott, Jr., in summing up the election reports for his father at the end of November, pointed to the Rutledge faction as holding the presidency within its hands; the result would turn upon the balloting of the South Carolina electoral college, he stated, and Edward Rutledge was believed to command its decision. His reports from all over the Union indicated that Adams lacked but three votes for a majority. His fear was that Rutledge’s disgust with the Jay treaty would give the decision to Jefferson. 1957, Stephen G. Kurtz, The Presidency of John Adams: The Collapse of Federalism, 1795-1800, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 171–172:
   • Each state's Electoral College submits its votes to the President of the Senate.
   • Although not now generally known, Guilford had a vital part in the presidential election of 1800, one of its citizens, John Noyes, being a member of the Vermont electoral college, which supported Thomas Jefferson, who was opposed by Aaron Burr, each receiving the same number of electoral votes. 1961, “Guilford, "The Metropolis"”, in Official History of Guilford, Vermont, 1678-1961 With Genealogies and Biographical Sketches, Town of Guilford, →OCLC, page 157:
2. (US) All of the electoral colleges of the United States, considered as one body.
   • In accordance with these opinions I believe that the ancient and outmoded Electoral College system should be abolished and that the people should vote directly in all the states for President and Vice President. The Electoral College was established in the beginning of our history for the same reasons which actuated our forefathers in providing that United States senators should be elected by the legislatures rather than by the people of the respective states. 1954, Alben W. Barkley, That Reminds Me, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 276:
3. (alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of electoral college.
   alt of electoral college
   • The Electoral College is composed of Six Electors; Three Ecclesiatical, Mentz, Trier, Collen; and Three Secular, The Palatine, Sane, and Brandebourg 1647, “Some Observations upon the Articles delivered by the Ambassadors of the Emperor”, in Journal of the House of Lords, volume ix, London, page 174:

Forms

Translations (21)

ro Colegiu Electoral (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · nb valgmannskollegium (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · ka საარჩევნო კოლეგია (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · cmn 選舉人團 /选举人团 (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · nn valmannskollegium (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · be кале́гія вы́баршчыкаў (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · fi valitsijamiehistö (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · pl Kolegium Elektorów (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · de Wahlmännerkollegium (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · ja 選挙人団 (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · ka ამომრჩეველთა კოლეგია (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · uk коле́гія виборникі́в (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · da valgkollegium (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · fr collège électoral (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · de Wahlmännergremium (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · de Electoral College (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · ru колле́гия вы́борщиков (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · tr seçiciler kurulu (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · ko 선거인단 (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · da valgmandskollegium (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US) · de Wahlmänner-Gremium (body chosen to elect the president and vice president of the US)