Word Finder - constituency

definition

A district represented by one or more elected officials.

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John was elected to parliament from the Bedford constituency.

synonyms

• electoral district
• precinct
• riding

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(collective) The voters within such a district.

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• electorate

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(collective) The residents of such a district.

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(collective) The voters of a candidate.

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An interest group or fan base.

He left his constituency to fight N.W.

Once a benefit is established, it creates a constituency fiercely dedicated to defending it.

Dunbar used to form one of the Haddington district group of parliamentary burghs, but its constituency was merged in that of the county in 1885.

At the general election of 1790 he came forward as a candidate for that distinguished constituency, in opposition to Fox and Lord Hood, but was defeated; and, at a second trial in 1796, he was again at the bottom of the poll.

Rhode Island was finally fixed upon, partly as the abode of religious liberty and because of its intelligent, influential and relatively wealthy Baptist constituency, the consequent likelihood of procuring a charter from its legislature, and the probability that the co-operation of other denominations in an institution under Baptist control would be available.

It was not till 1863 that he re-entered political life, being elected by a Parisian constituency.

Each councillor represents a separate constituency, these constituencies, as far as possible, to be the same as the parliamentary constituencies.

The conference recognizes the fact that its constituency is Congregational in tradition and polity.

The record here involves 19 contenders in a parliamentary constituency.

Each candidate must make, at least five days before the elections, a declaration setting forth in what constituency he intends to stand.

The borough returned a member only to the parliament of 1658; its elected member, Secretary Thurloe, chose then to represent another constituency.

I relish the prospect of finally getting up to date with my constituency workload.

There are issues that are causing much anguish in my constituency.

There are many good faith schools which are a positive boon to the communities they serve - I have three in my constituency.

Blair first ran for Parliament as a Labor Party candidate in 1982, when he lost a by-election for the Beaconsfield constituency.

She contested the constituency of North West Durham in the 1992 General Election and Barking in a 1994 by-election.

In a working-class constituency like mine, this is a lifeline.

Will the speaker sometimes exclude all non-English constituency MPs, and other times only the Scottish, or perhaps only the Welsh and Scottish?

The Alliance acknowledges the desire of Courage to remain within the evangelical constituency and their desire for evangelical unity.

Constituency MSPs have been particularly concerned that list MSPs have been interfering in local constituency MSPs have been particularly concerned that list MSPs have been interfering in local constituency casework.

The Commission also amended the name of one proposed county constituency.

I am, however, my constituency delegate to the Labor conference this year so may get a chance to speak.

In general, the intention is to ensure that constituency electorates are kept roughly equal.

The effort to create a European constituency in an effort to promote federalism has been positively counter productive.

If they cannot even garner support from this constituency, how can they possibly suggest their proposals have any level of public support?

The root of the problem is intellectual incoherence, even more than constituency pressures.

This gives rise to an acute situation in my constituency, where we have only five PayPoint outlets.

Thus, Harriet Harman remained on the NEC ballot paper despite having failed to be properly nominated by her constituency party.

Alike Tory grandees and constituency loyalists are reveling in their party's new-found popularity.

In my constituency child rapists are being put into an open prison from which they can walk out at any time.

The data from the labor force survey, which is a sample survey, are not statistically reliable at the constituency level.

The maligned Liberal Democrat leader issued an immediate riposte from the floor of his rocking constituency office in downtown Inverness.

An accident occurred in my constituency where a farmer, who was spreading slurry, crossed a railroad line.

Seven pro-establishment candidates contested the six constituency seats, thus splitting their vote.

Consequently, if any single deputy believed that a measure already approved of by the rest of the house might be injurious to his constituency, he had the right to rise and exclaim nie pozwalam, " I disapprove," when the measure in question fell at once to the ground.

In May 1869 he was returned to the Assembly, both by the first circumscription of Paris and by Marseilles, defeating Hippolyte Carnot for the former constituency and Thiers and Lesseps for the latter.

This dispute had been raised in 1847 into a question of practical moment by the election of Baron Lionel Nathan Rothschild as representative of the City of London, and its importance had been emphasized in 1851 by the return of another Jew, Alderman Salomons, for another constituency.

A very strong campaign for that is based in Bilston in my constituency, led by the redoubtable campaigner, Tom Larkin.

I am also relishing the prospect of finally getting up to date with my constituency workload.

The voters in each constituency will elect a single person to represent them in the House of Commons.

Four of the seven wards in the constituency now have at least one Liberal Democrat Councilor.

Its constituency was largely the unemployed and the working poor.

The constituency refers to the number of people who have the potential to be customers for the pieces you are considering.

He would not canvass, nor pay agents to canvass for him, nor would he engage to attend to the local business of the constituency.

He was afterwards successively elected for Middlesex (1830), Kilkenny (1837) and for the Montrose burghs (1842), in the service of which constituency he died.

General Botha was defeated at Pretoria East by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, and at Georgetown - a Rand constituency - Mr Hull was beaten by Sir George Farrar.

His daughter Julia died at Beirut, and before long he received the news of his election by a constituency (Bergues) in the department of the Nord.

He was the first tenant farmer to represent a Scottish constituency, and was returned to parliament, unopposed, as Liberal member for the western division of Aberdeen in 1868.

His support of Pitt's Reform Bill was qualified by a just dislike of the ministers' proposal to treat the possession of the franchise by a constituency as a property and not as a trust.

There is a biennial registration of voters, and every five years the electoral areas are to be redivided, with the object of giving to each constituency an approximately equal number of voters.