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单词 electoral vote
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electoral vote
electoral vote n. the vote of a member of an electoral college; (with the) the votes cast by the electoral college in an election, considered collectively.Now chiefly in the context of U.S. presidential elections.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > systems of voting > types of vote
electoral vote1673
transferable vote1885
list vote1911
1673 R. Honywood tr. B. Nani Hist. Republick of Venice viii. 361 Bavaria..had likewise made a late Treaty with the French, in which they promising him the conservation of the Electoral Vote in his Family, both the King and Duke obliged themselves mutually to defend those Countries, which they then possessed, with a certain number of Horse and Foot.
1745 Dutch Reasoner 52 The Majority of the Electoral Votes seems to be on our Side.
1802 N.-Y. Herald 28 July 3/4 He [sc. Aaron Burr]..returned with the information..that Mr. Jefferson would unquestionably have two of the Electoral votes of that State.
1808 National Intelligencer & Washington Advertiser 5 Oct. We deemed it a duty of indispensible obligation, to endeavor to conciliate and consolidate the electoral vote of Pennsylvania in its favor.
1914 Jrnl. Race Devel. 4 303 Presidential elections in Mexico are indirect, and the mistake has arisen through a confusion of the popular vote with the electoral vote.
1932 N.Y. Times 10 Nov. 11 Although it had erred in five States..the quadrennial straw ballot of The Literary Digest proved yesterday to be within two votes of having accurately forecast the electoral vote for President.
2012 Washington Times (Nexis) 13 Feb. 4 With 270 electoral votes needed to win, Mr. Obama needs to gain 111, or 67 percent of the 162 toss-up electoral votes.
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