Indirect election

Japanese: 間接選挙 - かんせつせんきょ(英語表記)indirect election
Indirect election

In this system, voters simply elect the election committee (interim electors), who then elect the candidates. Indirect elections are different from direct elections, in that voters themselves elect the candidates, and instead only indirectly participate in the selection of the candidates through the election committee. In the 19th century, indirect elections were widely used to elect members of parliament in continental Europe, but now direct elections are the basic principle of the electoral system. However, even today, the US presidential election and the election of senators in France and the Netherlands are indirect elections. There is a system similar to indirect elections, but it is different from it, the multiple election system (semi-indirect election system). The difference between the two is that in indirect elections, the intermediate electors are chosen only to elect the candidates, and their position disappears when the election is over, but this is not the case in the multiple election system. In the past, prefectural assembly members in Japan were elected by multiple elections, i.e., in city and county assemblies (1890-99).

[Mitsuhashi Yoshiaki]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

選挙人は単に選挙委員(中間選挙人)を選挙するにとどまり、その選挙委員が被選挙人を選挙する制度をいう。間接選挙は、選挙人自らが被選挙人を選挙する直接選挙と異なり、選挙人が選挙委員を媒介として間接的に被選挙人の選定に参与するにすぎない制度である。19世紀のヨーロッパ大陸諸国では、間接選挙制による議員選挙が広く行われていたが、現在では、直接選挙が選挙制度の基本原則となっている。しかし、今日なお、アメリカの大統領選挙や、フランス、オランダなどの上院議員選挙は間接選挙である。間接選挙に類似するが、これと区別されるものに複選制(準間接選挙制)がある。両者の違いは、間接選挙における中間選挙人は被選挙人を選挙するためにのみ選ばれ、その地位は選挙終了とともに消滅するが、複選制ではそうではない点である。かつてのわが国の府県会議員は複選制により、すなわち市会・郡会などにおいて選挙されたことがある(1890~99)。

[三橋良士明]

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