Electric potential

Electric potential energy is, like gravitational PE, an energy of position, but it also depends upon the charge of the particle in question, so it’s not quite the potential energy we’re used to. Thus, we refer to it as “potential,” and later usually as “voltage.”

Electric potential is defined as the potential energy of a particle divided by its charge. Therefore a +2 Coulomb (C) charged particle at one location in an electric field has half the potential as a +1 C particle at the same location.

$$V = \frac{PE}{Q}$$

We define potential that way because the magnitude of the charge also influences the potential energy.