Elector - Senkyonin

Japanese: 選挙人 - センキョニン

1. A person who has the right to vote.
2 In the US presidential election, people who vote for the presidential candidate according to the results of the popular vote in each state. There are 538 electors in the US, and each state is allocated a number of electors according to its population. The political party that puts up a presidential candidate determines a list of electors for each state before the popular vote, and the party of the candidate who wins the popular vote sends all of its electors to the electoral vote. The president is determined by the total number of electors received. Presidential electors.

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Japanese:

１選挙権を有する者。
２米国大統領選挙で、各州での一般投票の結果に従って大統領候補に投票する人。全米に538人がいて、州ごとに人口に応じた数の選挙人が割り当てられている。大統領候補を出した政党は一般投票前に各州の選挙人人数分の名簿を決め、一般投票で勝った候補者の党が名簿全員を選挙人投票に送り込む。獲得した選挙人の合計で大統領が決定する。大統領選挙人。

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