b. spec. One who attempts to exclude a candidate from office by voting against him; esp. one who voted for the Exclusion Bill (EXCLUSION 1 b).
1670. G. H., Hist. Cardinals, III. II. 276. They left no stone unturned, that might mollifie the excluders, and prevail with them to give their votes for Montalto.
1685. Addr. Middlesex Just. of Peace, in Lond. Gaz., No. 2010/4. The race of Regicides and Excluders (who Murthered the Royal Martyr your Father).
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 476. The grand jury of Suffolk expressed a hope that the parliament would proscribe all the excluders.