The word 'elector' is correct and is commonly used in written English.
It refers to a person who has the right to vote in an election, especially a representative of a constituency in a body such as a legislature or electoral college. Example: The electors will cast their votes tomorrow to decide the new president of the country.
Like every other elector who cares about the vote, I am convinced that if the whole electorate shared my opinions the country would be saved from disaster.
How would their canvasser put his case to an elector living in an obviously reactionary block of flats?
But if you listen to the average elector discussing the situation you will find that he is bored; he does not care twopence which candidate gets in.
In 2004 a smaller number of agitators tried to stop Ohio's votes from going Republican, and one Democratic elector voted accidentally for John Edwards.
Here the most important type of elector may not be swing voters but those too furious to vote at all.That may also be true in North West Leicestershire.
Business as usual included restrictions on duelling, on the movement of vagrants and on the installation of mills when these impeded river navigation.The elector of Mainz, the equivalent of today's rotating president of the Council of Ministers, "dictated" such legislative proposals into writing and put them before the three chambers.
But the princes, led by the charismatic elector of Brandenburg, an upstart power in the east, rejected the emperor's proposal to make all estates pay imperial taxes authorised by the Reichstag ie, what would have been a rudimentary "transfer union" as it is contemplated in the EU today.Having settled on a loose union, the empire concentrated on making it irreversible.
The first documented use of "elector" in English, in 1467, is in the sense of "one who has the right to vote in election to any office or dignity", and the context of that citation is the election of guild officers.
Frederick the Great was elector of Brandenburg, but that did not stop him from waging war on the Holy Roman Empire.GARETH PENNLarkspur, CaliforniaGreen riceSIR—I read of the passing of Chidambaram Subramaniam with great sadness (Obituary, November 18th).
That was destabilising.Brandenburg-Prussia had first announced itself on the big stage at the 1653 Reichstag, when Frederick William, a duke known as the "great elector", thwarted the emperor's attempt to levy imperial taxes by majority vote of the princes.
A few years later he found himself working for his old boss again when the elector of Hanover became King George I.By 1727 Handel was so well entrenched in London that, as George Frideric Handel, he became a naturalised British citizen (which required an act of Parliament).
