Pope Paul VI by his motu proprio Ingravescentem aetatem, dated November 21, 1970, substantially modified the electoral power of the cardinals. The document stipulated that cardinals older than eighty years were deprived of their right to elect the pope and to participate in the conclave. When this provision went into effect on January 1, 1971, twenty-five cardinals lost their electoral rights. This regulation was later reaffirmed by his apostolic constitution Romano Pontifici eligendo of October 1, 1975 and by Pope John Paul II's apostolic constitution Universi Dominici Gregis of February 22, 1996.

As of June 17, 2008, there are 116 electors. Of the electors, 86 have been created by Pope John Paul II and 30 by Pope Benedict XVI. In parentheses, following the name, is the year of cardinalitial creation and then, the date of birth.

Michael Michai Kitbunchu (1983), January 26, 1929
Francesco Marchisano (2003), June 25, 1929
Darío Castrillón Hoyos (1998), July 4, 1929
Józef Glemp (1983), December 28, 1929

Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic (1998), January 27, 1930
Adam Joseph Maida (1994), March 18, 1930
Thomas Stafford Williams (1983), March 20, 1930
Julián Herranz Casado, Opus Dei (2003), March 31, 1930
Theodore Edgar McCarrick (2001), July 7, 1930
Paul Poupard (1985), August 30, 1930
Salvatore De Giorgi (1998), September 6, 1930
Ignace Moussa I Daoud (2001), September 18, 1930
Michele Giordano, September 26, 1930
Christian Wyghan Tumi (1988), October 15, 1930
Jānis Pujats (1998), November 14, 1930

Bernard Panafieu(2003), January 26, 1931
Ricardo Vidal (1985), February 6, 1931
Agustín García-Gasco Vicente (2007), February 12, 1931
Camillo Ruini (1991), February 19, 1931
William Henry Keeler (1994), March 4, 1931
Sergio Sebastiani (2001), April 11, 1931
Bernard Francis Law (1985), November 4, 1931
Adrianus Johannes Simonis (1985), November 26, 1931
Nicholas Cheong Jin-Suk (2006), December 7, 1931

José Saraiva Martins, C.M.F. (2001), January 6, 1932
Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, S.D.B. (2006), January 13, 1932
Rodolfo Quezada Toruño (2003), March 8, 1932
Edward Michael Egan (2001), April 2, 1932
Miloslav Vlk (1994), May 17, 1932
Henri Schwery (1991), June 14, 1932
James Francis Stafford (1998), July 26, 1932
Gaudencio Borbon Rosales (2006), August 10, 1932
Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (2001), August 24, 1932
Pedro Rubiano Sáenz (2001), September 13, 1932
Francis Arinze (1985), November 1, 1932
Renato Raffaele Martino (2003), November 23, 1932
Eusébio Oscar Scheid, S.C.I. (2003), December 8, 1932

Javier Lozano Barragán (2003), January 26, 1933
Lubomyr Husar, M.S.U. (2001), February 26, 1933
Walter Kasper (2001), March 5, 1933
Severino Poletto (2001), March 18, 1933
Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (1994), March 28, 1933
Godfried Danneels (1983), June 5, 1933
Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Institute of the Fathers of Schöntatt (2001), September 5, 1933
Raffaele Farina, S.D.B. (2007), September 24, 1933
Geraldo Majella Agnelo (2001), October 19, 1933
Joachim Meisner (1983), December 25, 1933

Giovanni Battista Re (2001), January 30, 1934
Dionigi Tettamanzi (1998), March 14, 1934
Cláudio Hummes, O.F.M. (2001), August 8, 1934
Carlos Amigo Vallejo, O.F.M. (2003), August 23, 1934
Paul Josef Cordes (2007), September 5, 1934
Franc Rodé, C.M. (2006), September 23, 1934
Tarcisio Bertone (2003), December 2, 1934
Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja, S.J. (1994), December 20, 1934
Jean Baptiste Pham Minh Mân (2003), 1934

Giovanni Lajolo, (2007) January 3, 1935
Justin Francis Rigali (2003), April 19, 1935
John Patrick Foley (2007), November 11, 1935

Georg Maximilian Sterzinsky (1991), February 9, 1936
José da Cruz Policarpo (2001), February 26, 1936
Roger Michael Mahony (1991), February 27, 1936
Julio Terrazas Sandoval, C.SS.R. (2001), March 7, 1936
Ivan Dias (2001), April 14, 1936
Karl Lehmann (2001), May 16, 1936
William Joseph Levada (2006), June 15, 1936
Anthony Olubunmi Okogie (2003), June 16, 1936
Jean-Claude Turcotte (1994), June 26, 1936
Antonio María Rouco Varela (1998), August 24, 1936
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (1994), October 18, 1936
Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez (1991), October 31, 1936
Ennio Antonelli (2003), November 18, 1936
Théodore-Adrien Sarr (2007), November 28, 1936
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J. (2001), December 17, 1936

Francis Eugene George, O.M.I. (1998), January 16, 1937
Audrys Juozas Bačkis (2001), February 1, 1937
Attilio Nicora (2003), March 16, 1937
Lluís Martínez Sistach (2007), April 29, 1937

Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien (2003), March 17, 1938
Carlo Caffarra (2006), June 1, 1938

Stanisław Dziwisz (2006), April 27, 1939
Seán Baptist Brady (2007), August 16, 1939
Zenon Grochołewski (2001), October 11, 1939
Telesphore Placidus Toppo (2003), October 15, 1939

Agostino Vallini (2006), April 17, 1940

Gabriel Zubeir Wako (2003), February 27, 1941
Wilfrid Fox Napier, O.F.M. (2001), March 8, 1941
George Pell (2003), April 8, 1941
Angelo Scola (2003), November 7, 1941

Norberto Rivera Carrera (1998), June 6, 1942
Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino (2006), August 28, 1942
André Vingt-Trois(2007), November 7, 1942
Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga (2001), December 29, 1942

Angelo Bagnasco (2007), February 14, 1943
Crescenzio Sepe (2001), June 2, 1943
Jean-Louis Tauran (2003), April 3, 1943
Angelo Comastri (2007), September 17, 1943
Leonardo Sandri (2007), November 18, 1943
Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Opus Dei (2001), December 28, 1943

Marc Ouellet, P.S.S. (2003), June 8, 1944
Seán Patrick O'Malley, O.F.M.Cap. (2006), June 29, 1944
Polycarp Pengo (1998), August 5, 1944
Jean-Pierre Ricard (2006), September 25, 1944
Oswald Gracias (2007), December 24, 1944
John Njue (2007), 1944

Christoph Schönborn, O.P. (1998), January 22, 1945
Stanisław Ryłko (2007), July 4, 1945
Vinko Puljić (1994), September 8, 1945
Antonio Cañizares Llovera (2006), October 10, 1945

Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson (2003), October 11, 1948

Francisco Robles Ortega (2007), March 2, 1949
Josip Bozanić (2003), March 20, 1949
Daniel Nicholas DiNardo (2007), May 23, 1949
Odilo Pedro Scherer (2007), September 21, 1949

Philippe Barbarin (2003), October 17, 1950

Péter Erdő (2003), June 25, 1952

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