11. Unlike other Scandinavian monarchies and Anglo-Saxon England, Norway was never an elective monarchy . 12. As described by democratic elective monarchy . 13. A specific type of elective monarchy known as Tanistry limits eligibility to members of the ruling house. 14. Polish Kings in the period were elected by ballot, by the nobility ( Elective Monarchy ). 15. Denmark was an elective monarchy , where elective power was held by the Council of the Realm. 16. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth had an elective monarchy , with a wide suffrage of some 500, 000 nobles. 17. The constitution also changed the government from an elective monarchy in its unique Polish variant to a hereditary monarchy. 18. Those two forms of monarchy ( agnatic seniority and elective monarchy ) were mostly used in the same centuries. 19. It presented an " Ideal of Protestant statesmanship ", pleading for a representative government and an elective monarchy . 20. The Emperor-King agreed that if the Habsburg male line became extinct, Hungary would once again have an elective monarchy .