| n. | 1. | One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office. | |||
| 2. | Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote. | ||||
| 3. | In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor. | ||||
| 4. | One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President. | ||||
| a. | 1. | Pertaining to an election or to electors.
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| Noun | 1. | elector - a citizen who has a legal right to vote Synonyms: voter |
| 2. | Elector - any of the German princes who were entitled to vote in the election of new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire |
ELECTOR, government. One who has the right to make choice of public officers
one, who has a right to vote.
2. The qualifications of electors are generally the same as those
required in the person to be elected; to this, however, there is one
exception; a naturalized citizen may be an elector of president of the
United States, although he could not constitutionally be elected to that
office.