This has happened historically, usually slowly, in many past elective monarchies.

Samoa was an elective monarchy from the first day of independence in 1962.

An attempt to create an elective monarchy in the United States failed.

An elective monarchy can sometimes seem to be a hereditary monarch.

Succession within one family based on seniority was often a device to control an elective monarchy.

Denmark was then an elective monarchy in which the nobility elected the new king, who had to share his power with them.

Sigismund believed he could preserve his dynasty by adopting elective monarchy.

In some other States elective monarchy provided opportunities of limiting the powers of each ruler at his election.

Malaysia is a federal constitutional elective monarchy.

Currently, the world's only true elective monarchies are:

Poland calls itself a republic, which is an hereditary aristocracy, with what is called an elective monarchy.

In an elective monarchy, the monarch is elected but otherwise serves as any other monarch.

In its early days, the first caliphate resembled elements of direct democracy (see shura) and an elective monarchy.

Thus the prince-bishoprics were elective monarchies too.

It presented an Ideal of Protestant statesmanship, pleading for a representative government and an elective monarchy.

It's a republic using representative democracy for its legislature and periodic elective monarchy for its executive.

The disappearance of the ruling dynasty and its replacement with a non-hereditary elective monarchy made the constitutional system much more unstable.

The Holy Roman Empire was an elective monarchy.

Three elective monarchies exist today.

One, Negeri Sembilan, is itself an elective monarchy.

In Africa, the Mali Empire functioned as both a constitutional and elective monarchy.

A system of elective monarchy was also present in the Galactic Empire (Star Wars.

As an Elective Monarchy, there is no line of succession to the throne of Malaysia.

Those two forms of monarchy (agnatic seniority and elective monarchy) were mostly used in the same centuries.

There is no popular vote involved in elective monarchies, as the elective body usually consists of a small number of eligible people.