does anyone know the difference between a senator and a prime minister?

Answer 1

There is only one PM at a time. He is the equivalent of the president. Senators are representatives of the states, each state having two. No similarities between the two.

Answer 2

The previous post about a Prime Minister being similar to a President is so wrong, but this is not the forum to discuss the difference.

A Senator is an elected or appointed member of a Parliament's upper chamber. This person usually represents a specific region. They do not have an executive power because they are a senator. Seeing Canadian senators are appointed, they represent a specific province in the Senate.

A Prime Minister is the leader of the largest party in the lower chamber of a Parliament. For example, the Conservatives hold the highest number of seats in the Canadian House of Commons so their party leader, Stephen Harper, is Prime Minister. They are not elected by a nationwide ballot, but represent a specific electoral district. Harper for example represents Calgary Southwest. Furthermore, the Prime Minister is considered the head of government in a parliamentary system while the Governor General/Monarch/President is considered the head of state.

Answer 3

In parliamentary democracies, the Prime Minister is the leader of the party with a majority in parliament, or a minority party which can get enough support from other parties or sitting members of parliament to hold power. The Prime Ministership can change without an election, if the leader of the party steps down.

Unlike the American President, a Prime Minister is not voted for by the entire electorate of a country. Each political party chooses its leader through a vote and, should that party come to power, the leader becomes Prime Minister. In a general election, the leader of a political party will run for a seat in his or her own riding; any campaigning done outside that riding is not for the Prime Minister's election, it is the leader of the party campaigning for other party members in their own individual ridings.

A senator, by comparison, is an elected or appointed member of the Senate. In Canada, senators are appointed; in the U.S., senators are elected.

A Prime Minister is, therefore, the leader of a government, whereas a senator is simpler another member of an elected or appointed political body.

Answer 4

In Australia, the Prime Minister is the leader of the party who holds the majority of seats in the House of Representatives (lower house). The leader of a political party is elected by the members of that party. The Prime Minister is nothing like the President of USA. He/she is only elected to a specific seat (electoral division) in the Parliament by voters in that specific electorate. In essence the Prime Minister is a minister who is the leader of the party in power.
The Senate is our Upper House and Senators are elected and represent various Senate seats, but these are different electoral divisions to those in the lower house.
After legislation is debated and passed in the House of Representatives it is then passed on to the Senate where it is further debated and passed as law. If the majority of senators wish, the legislation can be blocked and it is then sent back to the House of Rep's with the Senate's recommendations and debated and reviewed again.
Neither the Prime Minister nor Senators have executive powers.

Answer 5

A senator is a person who is chosen to represent a group of people within a population; for instance, the various states in the U.S. each elect two senators to represent the state in the U.S. congress. A prime minister, on the other hand, is just what the name implies; the "chief" minister of a government that is headed by a monarch of some sort; he or she usually reports to the monarch (at least officially/ceremonially, if not in terms of actual power), and is the de facto leader of the government. They are generally elected by the population at large, rather than by a single state or region of a country.

Answer 6

The Prime Minister is more like our president... only a bit more organized in thought... hehe... The Prime Minister makes decisions like the president of the US. I believe there is some consult with the royal sovereign (if one is present in that particular country), however I think this is more of a formality than anything.

Senators are elected as representatives of areas to rule in conjunction with a good many other senators (100 in the US/2 per state). Together they make decisions.

Answer 7

A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. A senator is a member of a deliberative body, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature. (wikipidia)

Prime minister would be the equivalent of our president. A senator is a member of a group that makes decisions.

Answer 8

Well generally PM is more equivalent to President.