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Chronic diseases present a significant challenge in healthcare, often requiring ongoing medical attention and posing limitations on patients' daily activities. Diagnosis of such diseases is hindered by the absence of specific symptoms making them hard to detect and or prevent. Addressing this issue, researchers have turned to computational approaches, analyzing patients' medical records to predict the presence or absence of chronic diseases with promising results. However, there is potential for further improvement. This paper introduces an ensemble classifier, ELVot-CroDiP, designed to enhance chronic disease prediction. ELVot-CroDiP harnesses the collective strengths of various machine learning algorithms through a majority voting mechanism, thereby boosting predictive accuracy. The model’s performance was evaluated using precision, recall, f1-score, and accuracy across five medical datasets, including heart disease, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, and heart stroke. Comparative analysis shows that ELVot-CroDiP offers superior performance in predicting chronic diseases compared to existing models, as evidenced by its higher scores in the mentioned evaluation metrics for each dataset tested.