noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ There were too many internal contradictions which prevented the different constituencies from working effectively together.
important
▪ I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising an important constituency point.
▪ Hofheinz, however, could only go so far in pursuing administrative rationality without risking the alienation of an important constituency.
▪ It has become an art to both beat the target projections and the cuts without offending important political constituencies.
large
▪ None of them would have any formal local attachment other than to the large constituency as a whole.
▪ Indeed, it was the pressure from this large and disadvantaged constituency that helped to establish vernacular literary education.
▪ Since the government can not submit every decision to popular referendum, elected or appointed individuals act on behalf of larger constituencies.
▪ In Britain there is a large and welcome constituency for courses which study his writing.
local
▪ The senior branch stepped in: local bigwigs, including councillors and the local constituency chairman, defended the errant chairman.
▪ Compare the supply of aspirants willing to stand for Parliament with the demands of pa when adopting candidates for local constituencies.
marginal
▪ Hand in hand with this measure goes an equally bold re-focusing of Labour's strategy concerning marginal constituencies.
▪ She said Darlington had been chosen because it was a marginal constituency.
▪ He was inaugurating Labour's national crusade on jobs, which will be concentrated on marginal Tory constituencies.
▪ Which is why two of the candidates in the marginal Darlington constituency have said such strange things about cigarettes lately.
▪ Another factor not taken into account before the election was the number of expatriate Tory voters registered in marginal constituencies.
▪ During a General Election, Party members might be encouraged to lend a hand in nearby marginal constituencies.
▪ Kensington was now a marginal constituency.
new
▪ The new constituencies have been devised.
▪ In 1832 the first parliamentary reform bill was passed and Dundee was one of the new constituencies created by the Act.
▪ The fact is no-one knows what's going to happen in the two new Milton Keynes constituencies.
parliamentary
▪ The Communist decision to withdraw its candidates in all but two Parliamentary constituencies aggravated the situation still further.
▪ Also Brent East has the highest concentration of immigrants of any parliamentary constituency in the country.
▪ Separated for local government purposes, the Hartlepools were united as one parliamentary constituency in 1868.
▪ Even in a traditionally Conservative parliamentary constituency, the youthful team could be crucially important.
▪ Of crucial importance, in the end, was the fact that all four areas were in Conservative-held parliamentary constituencies.
▪ Kent County Council; the district councils of; elected members of Kent local authorities and Parliamentary constituencies.
▪ Pocket-Breaches, Veneering's bought parliamentary constituency.
political
▪ None of these measures, of course, were popular with Labour's political constituency.
▪ This was true across a wide range of political and intellectual constituencies.
▪ It has become an art to both beat the target projections and the cuts without offending important political constituencies.
▪ Some of the best government programmes fall by the way for lack of a strong political constituency.
rural
▪ In a rural constituency it can be some small town; in the ten constituencies of Dublin, a suburb.
▪ It calls itself socialist, but wins seats in rural constituencies which have no time for socialism.
▪ On the Friday, the remote rural constituencies such as Teland Usan voted.
▪ The Labour Party was weak in this rural constituency and had no prospective candidate and hardly any organization.
▪ This results in a tendency for rural constituencies to have smaller electorates than urban constituencies.
single
▪ Women are transformed into a single constituency and denied their choice of allegiances.
▪ In theory, satisfying any single constituency satisfies all.
▪ In Britain he has no choice: he must vote for the single constituency candidate that his party has selected.
▪ Treating the whole province as a single constituency gave Paisley a chance to cash in on his considerable personal support.
▪ It is thought, for example, that a single Colchester constituency would present a better prospect for the Liberal Democrats.
▪ The largest number standing in a single constituency was 40, in Sinasina-Youngumgi in the Highlands.
▪ One goes to elect a member of parliament on a first past the post, single member constituency basis.
▪ This is repeated until a winner emerges. Single member constituencies again.
wide
▪ They have to do so because Haider has a far wider constituency than they wish to acknowledge.
▪ De Klerk also tried to attract a wider constituency to his own party.
▪ When it rains, it will wet a wide, diverse constituency.
■ NOUN
association
▪ While constituency association insiders had predicted a close race, Mr Burnside finished 46 votes ahead of Mr Wilson.
boundary
▪ However, constituency boundaries are changed from time to time.
candidate
▪ In order to be elected, a constituency candidate needs only a plurality of the votes cast.
▪ In Britain he has no choice: he must vote for the single constituency candidate that his party has selected.
▪ A list candidate may also be a constituency candidate.
▪ Many electors undoubtedly withheld votes from some of its constituency candidates because they judged them sure to be defeated.
core
▪ Labour's problem is that its core constituency in the manual working class has steadily declined over the years.
▪ It is organizing its core constituencies.
▪ His centrist, compromising instincts, embodied in the New Democrat covenant, alienated core constituencies while failing to impress opponents.
member
▪ Astonishingly the Commission failed to realize that its proposed ratio of one additional member for three constituency members would be inadequate.
▪ Mr. Leigh My hon. Friend is a very effective constituency Member.
party
▪ Philip Appleby, 44, a father of three from Wylam, Northumberland, was the unanimous choice of the constituency party.
▪ Mr Maude's constituency party has handed over £1,406 for stationery, envelopes and first class stamps.
▪ The Vale of Glamorgan member said he came under fierce pressure from the constituency party and the Whips' office.
▪ In theory, the Tory constituency parties could come to the rescue.
▪ On existing membership figures that would give constituency parties 26 percent of the vote, and the unions 74 percent.
▪ In almost identical terms, constituency parties in the province and Britain have stepped up the pressure for a decisive Government move.
seat
▪ In this second round the candidate with most votes would win the constituency seat provided that participation was above 25 percent.
▪ The rebel will have to try to win a constituency seat.
▪ Let x be the percentage of a region's constituency seats won by any one party.
▪ They took no constituency seat and had only 1.4% of the list votes.
vote
▪ At 46.7 its regional list vote percentage was 4.8 points lower than its constituency vote percentage at 51.5.
■ VERB
elect
▪ In order to be elected, a constituency candidate needs only a plurality of the votes cast.
▪ If five members are to be elected in your constituency your natural expectation would be that you should have five votes.
▪ At present several candidates are elected in each constituency.
▪ Labour Members of Parliament will be elected to represent those constituencies.
▪ Half of the 400 national representatives would be elected on a constituency basis and the other half by proportional representation.
represent
▪ Today, few congressmen represent any constituency.
▪ A committee of 10-12 doctors, each representing a constituency of 20-30000, should be sufficient to service the committee's obligations.
▪ I represent a constituency very near Westminster and I bring to the House many groups of youngsters from schools.
▪ Labour Members of Parliament will be elected to represent those constituencies.
▪ Meanwhile there is increasing acceptance that the task of representing a constituency can fairly be considered to constitute a full-time job.
▪ I am sure that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland constituencies will welcome the opportunity to debate the orders.
visit
▪ Mr Trimble is visiting all 18 constituencies in Northern Ireland this week to promote a return to devolution.
▪ His campaign was endorsed by Cresson, who visited the constituency on June 7.
▪ It is time that he visited his constituency and had a look around.
win
▪ In this second round the candidate with most votes would win the constituency seat provided that participation was above 25 percent.
▪ The rebel will have to try to win a constituency seat.
▪ It calls itself socialist, but wins seats in rural constituencies which have no time for socialism.
▪ Seats are divided between the parties according to the proportion of the vote they win in the constituency.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
marginal seat/constituency
▪ Another factor not taken into account before the election was the number of expatriate Tory voters registered in marginal constituencies.
▪ Hand in hand with this measure goes an equally bold re-focusing of Labour's strategy concerning marginal constituencies.
▪ In the 1979 and 1983 elections there were examples of locally popular candidates holding their marginal seats against the national swing.
▪ Mr Devlin's constituency was a marginal seat before Parliament was dissolved last week, having a majority of 774.
▪ One of the country's two most marginal seats, Brecon and Radnor, also declares today.
▪ She said Darlington had been chosen because it was a marginal constituency.
▪ The Prime Minister rounded off his campaign by visiting two Tory marginal seats in south London.
▪ There is a core vote-a traditional solid Labour support-in every constituency in the land, including marginal seats.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I'm voting the way my constituency wants me to, not the way the President wants me to.
▪ Students have never been the constituency of any single party.
▪ The governor will be visiting a rural constituency north of Charlotte.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A constituency operation in south-east London was begun at about the same time.
▪ As the people with formal authority, they were accountable for making sense of and integrating the varied agendas of their constituencies.
▪ Cutbacks in local defence establishments is also a factor in some constituencies.
▪ In this second round the candidate with most votes would win the constituency seat provided that participation was above 25 percent.
▪ Mr Fallon and Mr Milburn are both keener to stress local issues and their constituency credentials.
▪ Naturally, the hon. Gentleman is particularly concerned about an incinerator that may be built in his constituency.
▪ Now imagine the paralysis that would be induced if constituencies could be polled instantly by an all-but-universal interactive system.
▪ Why is Clinton targeting that rather small constituency?