electorate

Examples of electorate in the following topics:

• The Electoral College

  • The Electoral College consists of 538 electors who officially elect the President and Vice President of the United States.
  • That results in 538 total electors.
  • These presidential electors in turn cast electoral votes for those two offices.
  • Faithless electors are pledged electors and thus different from unpledged electors.
  • This shows the influence of the Electoral College on the prominence of swing states, those with small populations but large Electoral College votes.

• The Nomination Campaign

  • A number of electors, collectively known as the Electoral College, officially select the president.
  • On Election Day, voters in each of the states and the District of Columbia cast ballots for these electors.
  • Each state is allocated a number of electors, equal to the size of its delegation in both Houses of Congress combined.
  • Generally, the ticket that wins the most votes in a state wins all of that state's electoral votes, and thus has its slate of electors chosen to vote in the Electoral College.
  • Describe the procedure by which the Electoral College indirectly elects the President

• Using Electoral Politics

  • A number of interest groups have sought out electoral politics as a means of gaining access and influence on broader American policies.
  • All electoral politics are interest politics in some sense.
  • One example of an interest group using electoral politics is the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC).
  • Labor Party (USLP), a registered political party, as its electoral arm.
  • Give an example of an interest group making determined use of electoral politics

• Likeability of Political Candidates

  • Candidates run for office by orchestrating expensive campaigns designed to increase their appeal to the electorate.
  • Candidates running for election to public office need to appeal to the electorate in order to acquire votes.
  • Likeability refers to whether or not the electorate generally likes a candidate, as measured by opinion polls .
  • Likeability is thought to play a significant role in electoral politics but is difficult to access in campaigns.
  • Identify the reasons the electorate might be drawn to a particular candidate

• Electoral Districts

  • An electoral district is a territorial subdivision whose members (constituents) elect one or more representatives to a legislative body.
  • In Australia and New Zealand, electoral districts are called "electorates," but elsewhere the term generally refers to the body of voters.
  • The exact name used varies from country to country, including such terms as "electoral commission", "central election commission", "electoral branch" or "electoral court".
  • They may also be responsible for electoral boundary delimitation.
  • Gerrymandering is the manipulation of electoral district boundaries for political gain.

• Electing Candidates

  • Electoral systems are the detailed constitutional arrangements and voting laws that convert the vote into a political decision.
  • Electoral systems then determine the result of the election on the basis of the tally.
  • Most electoral systems can be categorized as either proportional or majoritarian.
  • The electorate, or the group of people who are eligible to vote, does not generally include the entire population.
  • Many electoral systems require voters to cast ballots at official, regulated polling places.

• The 23rd Amendment

  • The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution permits citizens in the District of Columbia to vote for Electors for President and Vice President.
  • The 23rd Amendment would have been repealed by the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment, which proposed to give the District full representation in the United States Congress, full representation in the Electoral College system, and full participation in the process by which the U.S.
  • A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.

• The Election of 1796

  • In 1796, voters only could cast ballots for electors in the Electoral College, not for the presidential candidates themselves, and not all electors publicly declared their political preferences.
  • Some state legislatures even selected the members of the Electoral College.
  • There was no way for the electors to cast one vote for president and one for vice president—the electors simply voted for two different people, and the candidate with the most votes became president while the candidate with the second-highest number became vice president.
  • Jefferson received the second-highest number of electoral votes and was elected vice president according to the prevailing rules of electoral college voting.
  • This map illustrates the 1796 presidential election results, with presidential electoral votes by state.

• The Election of 1824

  • Electors were chosen by popular vote in eighteen states, while the six remaining states used the older system in which state legislatures chose electors.
  • The Electoral College, however, was another matter.
  • Of the 261 electoral votes, Jackson needed 131 or more to win but secured only 99.
  • Calhoun secured a total of 182 electoral votes and won the vice presidency in what was generally an uncompetitive race.
  • This map of the Electoral College votes of 1824 illustrates the number of electoral votes allotted to each candidate in each state.

• The Hohenzollerns

  • The state thus became additionally known as Electoral Brandenburg or the Electorate of Brandenburg.
  • The population has remained largely Lutheran since, although some later electors converted to Calvinism.
  • Prussia lay outside the Holy Roman Empire and the electors of Brandenburg held it as a fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, to which the electors paid homage.
  • The electors succeeded in acquiring full sovereignty over Prussia in 1657.
  • Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, also called Frederick VI of Nuremberg