History Main / ElectiveMonarchy

* The Kingdom of Rhodoks in MountAndBlade games. As one of your followers notes, even though Rhodok citizens consider themselves superior to the other lands of Calradia due to having a more civilised means of government, in practise they still have a ruling elite of lords and a downtrodden peasant class, same as all the other kingdoms.

## When the electors (the seniormost princes of the House of Saud) vote, they usually elect a ''Crown Prince'', to succeed the current King when he dies. Theoretically, if the King and Crown Prince die within a very short span of time, the princes might have to elect a King, but this has never happened.

## The electors have always elected the most-senior male member of the House of Saud deemed qualified for the job (some princes are ill, uninterested, or otherwise under suspicion, and thus aren't candidates in the first place). Since the ''1950s'', this has meant, basically, the oldest surviving son of AbdulAzizAlSaud. That's right--it's been over sixty years since the man died, and his grandsons still aren't anywhere near the throne (the Crown Prince and ''de facto'' next in line are both sons of Abdul Aziz).

* The Grand Master of the Order of Malta is elected for life.

*** Amusing note: In 1692 the Palatinate Wittelsbachs died out, leaving their lands and vote to their Bavarian cousins, and a ninth electorate (although there were eight electors) was created for the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg--who became known as the Elector of Hanover. These selfsame Electors of Hanover became TheHouseOfHanover in Great Britain, meaning that the British monarch had a nominal hand in choosing the Emperor for about 100 years. This may have smoothed the way in getting British support for Austria (as the Austrian Habsburgs were the Emperors) in WarOfTheAustrianSuccession, but the Austrians ditched Britain for France and Russia shortly thereafter.

*** Amusing note: In 1692 the Palatinate Wittelsbachs died out, leaving their lands and vote to their Bavarian cousins, and a ninth electorate (although there were eight electors) was created for the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg--who became known as the Elector of Hanover. These selfsame Electors of Hanover became TheHouseOfHanover in Great Britain, meaning that the British monarch had a nominal hand in choosing the Emperor for about 100 years. This may have smoothed the way in getting British support for Austria in TheWarOfTheAustrianSuccession, but the Austrians ditched Britain for France and Russia shortly thereafter.

* The HolyRomanEmpire (of the German Nation): the Emperor was elected by a group of four secular princes (Prince-Electors)--whose titles were hereditary--and three ruling archbishops (who, being archbishops, were at least theoretically chosen by the Pope). After the ThirtyYearsWar, an eighth Elector was added, for balance between Protestants and Catholics; and in the 1690 a ninth elector was added for no apparent reason.

* The Holy Roman Empire (of German Nation)

* The United Arab Emirates
* In Denmark, the kings were selected from at least the viking age and until 1660. With a single exception all kings (and one woman titled "Principal Lady and Husband of the North") however came from the same family, even if some spring around in the family tree were needed now and then. But it kept on, so today ruling queen Margrethe II can look back on a millenium old family tree of Danish kings.

** That's only in extreme cases, when the line of succession isn't clear. The Theirin dynasty has a long history of rule, broken only temporarily during the Orlesian occupation, and restored when Cailan Theirin, the grandson of the Theirin king who was too weak to hold off the Orlesians, manages (with some help) to drive off the occupying forces and regains the crown.

* The King of Cambodia is elected by a council, even if there is a successor available.

* The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, especially after the last of the Jagiellons died without issue in 1573.

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* [[ThePope The Roman Catholic Pope]] is indeed considered a monarch, and he is the last absolute monarch in Europe and one of the last in the world. He is elected by a group of cardinals.

* Poland (that's before the partitions. The post-WWI Poland is a republic).

* The Holy Roman Empire

* In Denmark the kings were selected from at least the viking age and until 1660. With a single exception all kings (and one woman titled "Principal Lady and Husband of the North") however came from the same family, even if some spring around in the family tree were needed now and then. But it kept on, so today ruling queen Margrethe II can look back on a millenium old family tree of danish kings.

!Examples

* [[StarWars Naboo's]] democratic monarchy, in which the ruler is elected and even has term limits.

* From TheBelgariad, Sendaria is this, and ''everyone'' can vote. Not even the monarch takes the monarchy seriously.

* TwilightPrincess has the Twili, but it's never elaborated any further.

* Poland

* Malaysia.

The inverse of HereditaryRepublic, this is when a monarch does not automatically inherit the throne, but is instead chosen by a group of people, whether it is the commoners or (more likely) an elite group.

* [[ThePope The Roman Catholic Pope]] is indeed considered a monarch, and he is the last absolute monarch in Europe and one of the last in the world. He is elected by a group of cardinals.

* In Denmark the kings were selected from at least the viking age and until 1660. With a single exception all kings (and one woman titled "Principal Lady and Husband of the North") however came from the same family, even if some spring around in the family tree were needed now and then. But it kept on, so today ruling queen Margrethe II kan look back on a millenium old family tree of danish kings.
* [[ThePope The Roman Catholic Pope]] is indeed considered a monarch, and he is the last absolute monarch in Europe. He is elected by a group of cardinals.