Politics & Government vocabulary · Elections and Voting
Constituency
Meaning in politics & government, with examples
/kənˈstɪtjuənsi/nounCommon term
In politics & government, constituency means: An area of a country that elects one or more representatives to parliament; also the voters who live there, or a group that supports a politician.
In Turkish: seçim çevresi, seçim bölgesi
How it is used
Common in British English: an MP represents a constituency and meets constituents there. American English usually says district. In a wider sense, constituency means a group of supporters, as in a party's core constituency.
Example sentences
She has represented the same constituency for fifteen years.
Each constituency elects one member of parliament.
Common collocations
represent a constituency
constituency boundaries
marginal constituency
core constituency
local constituency
Related terms
MPShort for member of parliament: a person elected by voters in a particular area to represent them in parliament.
voterA person who has the legal right to vote in an election, or who actually votes in one.
electorateAll the people in a country or area who have the right to vote in an election.
proportional representationAn electoral system in which parties win seats in proportion to the share of the vote they receive, so that 20% of the votes gives roughly 20% of the seats.
