How do you use the word "elector" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "elector" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "elector": Every registered elector has the right to cast a vote. The elector carefully weighed the candidates' promises.

Elector Meaning

/ɪˈlɛktə/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.

nounA person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter., A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.

Sentence Examples

Every registered elector has the right to cast a vote.

The elector carefully weighed the candidates' promises.

Every registered elector has the right to vote in the election.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

voter

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Every registered ____ must present a valid ID before casting their vote.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Every registered ____ has the right to cast a vote.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English electour (“one with a right to vote in electing some office, elector”), borrowed from Late Latin ēlēctor (“chooser, selector; voter, elector”), from Latin ēligere (“to elect”) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns), equivalent to elect + -or. Ēligere is the present active infinitive of ēligō (“to extract, pluck or root out; (figurative) to choose, elect, pick out”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + legō (“to appoint, choose, select”) (from Proto-Italic *legō (“to gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”)).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Where the qualifications of the electors are the ſame, whether they have to chooſe a ſmall or a large number their votes will fall upon thoſe in whom they have the moſt confidence; whether thoſe happen to be men of large fortunes or of moderate property or of no property at all." — 1788, Publius [pseudonym; Alexander Hamilton], “Number XXXV. The Same Subject [the general power of taxation] Continued.”, in The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, […] , volume I, New York, N.Y.: […] J. and A. M‘Lean, […], →OCLC, page 217:

"The conſtitution of France ſays, that every man who pays a tax of ſixty ſous per annum, (2s. and 6d. Engliſh), is an elector.— [...] Can any thing be more limited, and at the ſame time more capricious, than what the qualifications of electors are in England? [...] Capricious—becauſe the loweſt character that can be ſuppoſed to exiſt, and who has not ſo much as the viſible means of an honeſt livelihood, is an elector in ſome places; while, in other places, the man who pays very large taxes, and with a fair known character, and the farmer who rents to the amount of three or four hundred pounds a year, and with a property on that farm to three or four times that amount, is not admitted to be an elector." — 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, London: […] J. S. Jordan, […], →OCLC, pages 56–57:

"In the courſe of not many years muſt the electours of one place grapple in the waves for their town, and at preſent a ſeptennial conſequence is given to a heap of ruins." — 1793, William Frend, Peace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans, St. Ives, Cornwall: […] P. C. Croft, →OCLC, page 7:

"But in France is practice of bribing electors is almost unknown, whilst it is notoriously and publicly carried on in England." — 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville, “Government of the Democracy in America”, in Henry Reeve, transl., Democracy in America. […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, page 93:

"I Think this Letter, which was ſent to me by my Electors, worth printing, becauſe as it has convinced me, it may convince others." — 1701, J. D. [Fothers?], H. W., T. S., R. L. [et al.], “To the Bookseller”, in A Letter from Some Electors, to One of Their Representatives in Parliament. Shewing the Electors Sentiments, Touching the Matter in Dispute between the Lords and Commons in the Last Session of Parliament, in Relation to the Impeachments. […], London: […] Booksellers of London and Westminster, →OCLC:

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