IMO, the only time an elective is ever good in this game is if you still have < high partition or you start the game as a non-successive vassal and the elective gives you opportunity to succeed.

Whenever I get a title, I try to remove the elective as soon as I can. It's kinda useless and only risks my heir losing it to someone else. Unless again, I have less than high partition - but even then it's just for secondary titles I plan to keep, it should never be done for the primary title.

Elective is good only if you aren't the ruler, as an additional way of possibly getting to the throne. In every other case you wanna get rid of it.

Scandinavian Elective specifically can work like primogeniture for norse tribals.

You need:

1 kingdom title with sc.elective (as primary title with your capital inside)
1 kingdom title without elective (confederate partition)

If you always vote for your primary heir, he automatically keeps all titles within the elective realm, and he always gets the second kingdom.

Other children can only inherit titles outside of these two kingdoms.

So let's say you only have 2 counties outside of these two kingdoms, and you have 7 sons, then only sons number 2+3 will inherit one county each. The others get nothing.


All you need to do is to hold as many titles within the elective kingdom so you always have the vote majority. As long as you always vote for the primary partition heir, you wouldn't have to do anything at all for the rest of the game.

Other partition rules still apply, so any extra kingdoms would still be created and lost. But those two kingdoms (with all counties and duchies in the primary) are yours forever.

in summery no, elective is only good in selective situation, if you don't know what you are doing don't run your empire on elective. if you know what you are doing you probably wouldn't have made this theat.

It really depends on what you want out of the succession.
Personally I've used it mostly to get rid of my main title and on a few occassions just because I felt like playing with it.

If you seek a way to keep most of your titles under control after your current ruler dies, there are better succession laws out there.
Also, iirc I believe you cannot apply this law on county level, meaning your counties will get split up. Plus you have to implement it on each duchy title and higher.