Electoral college
Set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about electoral colleges in general. For the American electoral college, see United States Electoral College. For other uses, see Electoral college (disambiguation).
An electoral college is a set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to particular offices. Often these represent different organizations, political parties or entities, with each organization, political party or entity represented by a particular number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way. The United States has been the only democracy in the 21st century that still uses an electoral college to select its executive president. The other democracies that used an electoral college for these elections switched to direct elections in the 19th or 20th century.[1]:215