Sentence examples for elector in from inspiring English sources

Apologizing for her "inappropriate" comments Miller resigned her chairmanship and her eligibility to be an elector in the electoral college and was replaced by a Black female radio talks show host, Tracey Winbush.

Though he lost the nomination, he received 307 write-in votes in New Hampshire, 388 votes as an Independent on Wyoming's ballot, and a single electoral vote from a faithless elector in the November election from the state of Washington, which Ford had won over Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter.

In November, Mr. Thurmond got 1.1 million votes and the 38 electoral votes of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, plus a vote from one elector in Tennessee.

They were then sent to the Elector in January 1537.

On top of a base rate of £5,483, candidates were allowed 6.2p per elector in county constituencies and 4.6p per elector in borough constituencies.

In 2004, a Democratic elector in Minnesota wrote in John Edwards's name instead of John Kerry's.

And of course, by that time, it had been centuries since German electoral princes had actually elected anybody, being electors in name alone.

Each federal electoral district is responsible for revising the list of electors in that district.

Yet in 2001 only 59% of electors in Britain voted.

That guaranteed a Republican legislature, which in turn guaranteed Republican electors in November.

But the campaign left some electors in a quandary even as they voted.