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===Voting population===
Historically the size of eligible voters, the electorate, was small having the size of groups or communities of privileged men like [[aristocrats]] and men of a city ([[Citizens#History|citizens]]).

With the growth of the number of people with [[bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] citizen rights outside of cities, expanding the term citizen, the electorates grew to numbers beyond the thousands.
Elections with an electorate in the hundred thousands appeared in the final decades of the [[Elections in the Roman Republic|Roman Republic]], by extending voting rights to citizens outside of Rome with the [[Lex Julia#Lex Iulia de Civitate Latinis et Sociis Danda (90 BC)|Lex Julia of 90 BC]], reaching an electorate of 910,000 and estimated [[voter turnout]] of maximum 10% in 70 BC,<ref name="Rachel Feig Vishnia pg. 125">Vishnia 2012, p. 125</ref> only again comparable in size to the [[1788–89 United States elections|first elections of the United States]]. At the same time the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] had in 1780 about 214,000 eligible voters, 3% of the whole population.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/struggle_democracy/getting_vote.htm|title=Exhibitions > Citizenship > The struggle for democracy > Getting the vote > Voting rights before 1832|publisher=The National Archives|access-date=11 June 2020}}</ref> [[Naturalization]] can reshape the electorate of a country.<ref name="r054">{{cite web | last=Jordan | first=Miriam | title=Immigrants Are Becoming U.S. Citizens at Fastest Clips in Years | website=The New York Times | date=12 August 2024 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/12/us/immigration-us-citizenship-rates.html | access-date=13 August 2024}}</ref>