The Collaborative International Dictionary
Constituency \Con*stit"u*en*cy\ (k[o^]n*st[ict]t"[-u]*[-e]n*s[y^]), n.; pl. Constituencies (k[o^]n*st[ict]t"[-u]*[-e]n*s[i^]z). A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district.
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n. (plural of constituency English)
Usage examples of "constituencies".
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.
The Labour Party has always stood like a tripod on three legs: the trade unions, the constituency Labour parties (one each in the constituencies that make up the British electoral pattern), and the Parliamentary Labour Party, the group of Labour MPs who were elected at the previous general election.
Over the decade 1973 to 1983, hard-line activist young people of the extreme Left began to move into the constituencies, and by assidu-ous attendance at dull and sparsely filled CLP meet-ings ousted the old-time officials to gain control of one general management committee after another.
As each successive constituency fell to the new Hard Left activist control, the position of the largely centrist MPs representing those constituencies be-came tougher and tougher.
Briefly, out of 650 constituencies in Britain in 1983, the Labour Party won only 209.
Over the decade 1973 to 1983, hard-line activist young people of the extreme Left began to move into the constituencies, and by assiduous attendance at dull and sparsely filled CLP meetings ousted the old-time officials to gain control of one general management committee after another.
We are of the opinion that all interference by peers with the constituencies of the country should be put down by the strong hand of the law as thoroughly and unmercifully as we are putting down ordinary bribery.
He was an elderly man, over sixty years of age, who remembered the Reform Bill, and had been engaged in the doctoring of constituencies ever since.
It would give a far more representative character to the electoral college if it could be elected by fair modern methods, if for this particular purpose parliamentary constituencies could be grouped and the clean scientific method of proportional representation could be used.
And so with most constituencies, and the result is a legislative body consisting largely of men of unknown character and obscure aims, whose only credential is the wearing of a party label.
Hundreds of thousands of Londoners do not even know which of the ridiculous constituencies into which the politicians have dismembered our London they are in.
This was, however, the artistic prelude to a large, vague, gloomy dissertation about nothing very definite, a muddling up of the main question with the minor issue of a schedule of constituencies involved in the proposal.
Ramsay Macdonald (also an opponent) declares, that Proportional Representation means constituencies so big that it will be impossible for a poor man to cultivate and work them.
Our present electoral system, with our big modern constituencies of thousands of voters, leads to huge turnovers of political power with a relatively small shifting of public opinion.
Shi'ite shaykhs could represent their own small tribal constituencies, just as Sunni shaykhs could represent their followers.