An elective monarchy is a monarchy ruled by a monarch who is elected, in contrast to a hereditary monarchy in which the office is automatically passed...

profess Roman Catholicism. Elective monarchy can function as de facto hereditary monarchy. A specific type of elective monarchy known as tanistry limits...

Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises...

building dynasties; however, monarchies can also be elective and self-proclaimed. Aristocrats, though not inherent to monarchies, often function as the pool...

any elective member or government employee from their post, but he can select the minister of state, government council and judges. Muslim monarchies. Absolute...

loosely based on agnatic seniority. One state, Negeri Sembilan, is an elective monarchy; the ruler is elected from male members of the royal family by hereditary...

a grand duchy and Vatican City is a theocratic, elective monarchy ruled by the pope. The monarchies can be divided into two broad classes: premodern...

Kingdom of England by the 10th century. Anglo-Saxon England had an elective monarchy, but this was replaced by primogeniture after the Norman Conquest...

Cambodia has been an elected monarch, making Cambodia one of the few elective monarchies of the world. The king is elected for life by the Royal Council of...

Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth in the 10th century. Originally an elective monarchy, it became hereditary only in the 17th century during the reign of...

Kingdom, a legendary period of Roman history that functioned as an elective monarchy. According to legend, the first king of Rome was Romulus, who founded...

care Elective surgery An adjective for election Elective monarchy, a monarchy ruled by an elected monarch, in contrast to a hereditary monarchy This disambiguation...

independent monarchy (see also Irish head of state from 1922 to 1949), Vatican City as an elective monarchy, the Kingdom of Hungary as a nominal monarchy. The...

continues to be an absolute monarchy, but is unique because it is also a microstate, ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and elective monarchy. As of 2023, Vatican...

system of governance. Democratic centralism Democratic deficit Elective monarchy "Elective dictatorship". The Listener: 496–500. 21 October 1976. "The Rule...

Sweden for more than a millennium. Originally an elective monarchy, it became a hereditary monarchy in the 16th century during the reign of Gustav Vasa...

Jagiellonian king, the united Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth became an elective monarchy with mostly foreigners elected as monarchs such as Henry III of France...

Tibetan Buddhism, Nizari Ismailism). In most hereditary monarchies and some elective monarchies (e.g., Holy Roman Empire) there have been no limits on...

incoming heir. One could describe the monarchy of Poland at that time as "the hereditary monarchy with a[n] elective legislature." A major reason was the...

facto rotated between them, making Malaysia one of the world's few elective monarchies. The 17th and current Yang di-Pertuan Agong is Ibrahim Iskandar of...

1993 transition of Cambodia from a Marxist-Leninist republic to an elective monarchy. The city-state of Athens was ruled by monarchs in a period before...

This is a list of current monarchies by order of succession (hereditary and elective). List of monarchies Decided by primogeniture. "Europe :: Andorra"...

tanistry was followed, where the monarchy alternated between different branches of the House of Alpin. There was an elective element to early Scottish kings...

queen consort, the wife of a reigning king. Some monarchies are non-hereditary. In an elective monarchy, the monarch is elected but otherwise serves as...

ceremonial president. The president under the 1963 constitution was an elective monarch, chosen by the parliament from among Uganda's five traditional...

the rules of hereditary succession, there are also elective monarchies. There were elective monarchies in several Germanic successor states after the collapse...

Haiti (French: Empire d'Haïti; Haitian Creole: Anpi an Ayiti), was an elective monarchy in North America. Haiti was controlled by France before declaring...

Lesotho, an enclave of South Africa, is a constitutional elective monarchy. The current monarchy was established in 1824 when Moshoeshoe I, a tribal chieftain...

The Union included constitutional changes such as creating a formal elective monarchy, to simultaneously reign over both parties. Following the death of...

The Roman Kingdom, also known as the Roman monarchy and the regal period of ancient Rome, was the earliest period of Roman history when the city and its...