Meanings of elected delegates in English

The primaries which were held on Friday elected delegates to the convention of Saturday.

They drew up the following declaration, which has been approved by all subsequently elected delegates:

Instead, delegates are elected directly at a party convention where the elected delegates are free to support whomever they choose.

MoveOn.org and the Obama camp argue that the elected delegates should vote in line with the will of their constituents.

This Constitution was framed at Lecompton by fraudulently elected delegates to a pro-slavery convention, and it provided for perpetual slavery in the State.

The Council was a strictly revolutionary, and a very democratic body, composed of directly elected delegates from the factories and garrison regiments of Petrograd.

The legislature consisted of two branches: the lower house, to which the people elected delegates; and the upper house, or council, appointed by the governor.

Since Iowa, Obama has won 1,610.5 elected delegates -leaving him just 17 short of a majority of the 3,253 pledged delegates up for grabs.