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...

However, elective and self-proclaimed monarchies have also often occurred throughout history. Aristocrats, though not inherent to monarchies, often serve...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

means limited and has absolute power. Often such monarchies are hereditary and sometimes are elective. The absolutist system of government saw its high...

currently a subnational elective monarchy within Malaysia) Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah (c. 18th century – 1972; became subnational monarchy of the United Arab...

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...

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...

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...

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...

cases, the post of the monarch is inherited, but there are also elective monarchies where the monarch is elected. Rule by a form of government in which...

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...

1572 marked the end of the Jagiellonian dynasty and introduced an elective monarchy, whereupon members of domestic noble families or external dynasties...

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

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

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

sign the Treaty of Roskilde. Frederick disbanded the elective monarchy in favour of absolute monarchy, which lasted until 1848 in Denmark. He married Sophie...

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

(the Holy See). All except Malta and San Marino are monarchies (the Vatican City is an elective monarchy ruled by the Pope). These states trace their status...

an elective monarchy, especially as the line through which Sigismund claimed the throne had accepted that the Kingdom of Bohemia was an elective monarchy...

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

said this constitutes as an elective monarchy... But by making the executive subject to impeachment, the term 'monarchy' cannot apply..." His proposal...

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

the Tarquins' attempt to institute a hereditary monarchy over this conjectured earlier elective monarchy resulted in the formation of the Republic. Early...