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An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provide the voters therein with representation in a legislature or other polity.
The constituency office of British MP Nigel Adams in Tadcaster, 2019. A constituency office, also called an electorate office, is an office operated by a local political officeholder, such as a Member of Parliament (MP), within the area they represent. It may be used to have meetings with constituents, or administration for the officeholder.
Rural constituencies therefore became geographically larger through the 20th century and generally encompassed one or more counties each, and the word "riding" became used to refer to any electoral division. A political party's local organization is generally known as a riding association; the legal term is electoral district association or EDA.
The Parliament of the United Kingdom currently has 650 parliamentary constituencies across the constituent countries (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), each electing a single member of parliament (MP) to the House of Commons by the plurality (first-past-the-post) voting system, ordinarily every five years.
An electoral district association (French: association de circonscription enregistrée), commonly known as a riding association (French: association de comté) or constituency association, is the basic unit of a political party [1] at the level of the electoral district ("riding") in Canadian politics.
Presently, it comprises 224 members who are directly elected from single-seat constituencies. Since the independence of India, the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) have been given Reservation status , guaranteeing political representation, and the Constitution lays down the general principles of positive discrimination for SCs ...
Following the ‘one person, one vote’ doctrine, political territories are expected to be symmetric and have limited variance in the size of its constituencies. However, many new districts have been created that defy the basic requisites for redistricting as the constitution fails to clearly expound the due process for apportionment and ...
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by English constituencies for the Fifty-Eighth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024). It includes both MPs elected at the 2019 general election , held on 12 December 2019, and those subsequently elected in by-elections .