constituency

名词（选举国会议员的）选区; 选区的全体选民; （政客或政党的）支持者; 赞助者

1. (选举议员或政府代表的)选区
    A constituency is an area for which someone is elected as the representative in a parliament or government.

2. (政党或政治家的)支持者群体，拥护者群体
    A particular constituency is a section of society that may give political support to a particular party or politician.

    e.g. Mr Jackson had a natural constituency among American blacks...
           杰克逊先生在美国黑人中拥有自发的支持。
    e.g. In France, farmers are a powerful political constituency.
           在法国，农场主是强有力的政党支持群体。

1. The election commission was still waiting for results to come in from the remaining constituency.

2. May has spent most of the campaigning in her constituency, where she hopes to win the Green Party's first seat in the House of Commons.

3. The Supreme Administrative Court decided to hold another vote for this constituency on January 10 and January 11.

4. Many Canadians sent flowers to Layton's constituency's office in Toronto, bidding farewell to their leader.

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5. Low had been a member of parliament for 20 years in a single member constituency, but the opposition has never won any group representation constituency before.

6. The previous electoral law stipulated that each rural deputy would represent a population that had four times the number of people in an urban constituency.

7. To run for a seat in a geographical constituency, a nominee must be a registered geographical constituency elector aged 21 or above.

8. The existing functional constituency seat for the district council constituency will continue to be returned among the elected members of district councils.

9. My constituency is polarized with half of it staunchly left wing, while the other half is staunchly right wing.

10. constituency

10. Many in this key Republican constituency say that it's a disaster for the vice president's daughter to have a child without an apparent father.

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