What is the word for a person who delegates their vote?

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I'm making a delegation system. Users can hand over their votes to delegates (the noun). I am wondering what is the opposite of a 'delegate'.

I just delegated my vote to John, now he has a new ________.

I looked around, and found 'delegator' but I'm not sure if it's the right word.

If delegate is confusing or wrong in this context, I also found 'delegatee' and 'representative'.

I think we need to know what "delegation" means in this case. Is your delegate really a proxy? — Andrew Leach, Dec 29 '15 at 15:10
@BrianHooper Thanks, "principal" seems to be appropriate in the context of the law — Dorian, Dec 29 '15 at 15:26
@AndrewLeach: In my case, it's a voting system (aka: delegative democracy) where users delegates their votes to other users. — Dorian, Dec 29 '15 at 15:27
I also found constituents in the answers you provided which is pretty good — Dorian, Dec 29 '15 at 15:29
From the context in your question, I don't think you are looking for an antonym. You seem to be looking for the word for a person who delegates their vote (a delegator, as you have suggested) in contrast to the person to whom votes are delegated (which is what the noun delegate describes). I have edited your question to reflect that. You may rollback the edit if that was not your intent. — Kit Z. Fox, Dec 29 '15 at 15:47

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 29 '15 at 17:28

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I think I will settle with delegatee/delegator:

I just delegated my vote to John, now he has a new delegator.

answered Dec 29 '15 at 17:28

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The 2 words fit, i.e. a delegator delegates his vote to a delegatee. However, I won't say that "John has a new delegator": he rather has a proxy of a new delegator. – Graffito Dec 29 '15 at 21:00

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 15 '20 at 07:40

Consider, proxy giver.

The person who grants the power is called a proxy giver. The person who receives the power is called a proxy holder. A proxy is a form of agency. The proxy giver consents to the proxy holder's voting the share for her Shade's Business Associations in a Nutshell

I just delegated my vote to John, now he has a new proxy giver.

Respond when the name of your proxy giver is called Roll Call

What is the word for a person who delegates their vote?

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