The body of voters who elect a representative for their area

Usage examples of constituency.

Fate has been able to read ahead this far: it will come down to one vote, and that vote will be hers, but she must do it with the support of her mortal constituency.

The politicians all of them, even Burgo Smyth would be in their constituencies, awaiting the count.

The Webers doubted that a deaf-blind woman could interest a vaudeville audience, which was rowdier and more intent on entertainment than the education-bent, sober folk who formed the Chautauqua constituency.

Avoiding the high levels, former Nazis slipped into the grassroots organization of the ruling party at ward and constituency level.

Michael and I first met in 1969 when he was Vicar of Louth and I was the Member of Parliament for that beautiful constituency.

And, because al Qaeda, its supporters, imitators, and adherents, are members of a vast, nonvoting global constituency that the U.

Who can be the representative of such a Parnassian constituency of divine poets, philosophers, romancers, historians, from Beowulf to the last new novel?

Fielding spoke with the sadness of the powerman who sees his constituency fractionally undermined.

The amount of constituency, so to speak, on which the Louisiana government rests, would be more satisfactory to all if it contained fifty thousand, or thirty thousand, or even twenty thousand, instead of twelve thousand, as it does.

Attlee eked out a winning margin of 2 percent in his well-tended Stepney constituency, which ordinarily returned him by a vote of two to one.

Before the 1958 by-election in the Manitoba constituency of Springfield, for example, Ottawa Tories were worried about the effects of a recent freight-rate increase.

The letter was from John Stonehouse, the Member for Walsall North, the constituency adjoining mine.

Pledged as were your commissioners to an average ten per cent. reduction in rates for the carriage of grain by the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad, we have rigidly adhered to the demands of our constituency, we have obeyed the People.

For more than a quarter-century I have been a voter, usually with votes in two or three constituencies, and never in all that long political life have I seen a single straight fight in an election, but only the dismallest sham fights it is possible to conceive.

Searching for a constituency among environmentalists, Martinez had proposed P2000 as a way to preserve sensitive lands, while ensuring that property owners were fairly compensated.