1A group of voters in a specified area who elect a representative to a legislative body.

1. 1.1British An area whose voters elect a representative to a legislative body.
   a parliamentary candidate in the Hampstead and Highgate constituency

   Example sentencesExamples

   • He represented three different Dublin constituencies before losing his seat last June in the nationwide collapse of the Fine Gael vote.
   • The seat was abolished following boundary changes in 1983, after which he represented the Selby constituency.
   • Every member of the Cabinet has been scheduled to visit the constituency in the run-up to the election.
   • The Minister, who represents the Hacketstown constituency, expressed his delight that the project was now completed.
   • He represents the Meath constituency in the Dail and as a result of his appointment will resign his seat and a by-election will be held in Meath.
   • Fourteen members represent London constituencies, the other 11 are London-wide and their job is to scrutinise and monitor the mayor's performance.
   • Other party officials say that on the ground there is immense hostility to him and he has few supporters left in the constituency.
   • Growing up in a PNM-loyal family, I have been a supporter all my life in the Couva North constituency.
   • He owns the 250-bedroom Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney, the heart of the minister's constituency.
   • My husband is planning to start a factory for manufacturing green environment friendly condoms in the Minister's constituency.
   • The right of MPs to use a decades-old rule that entitles any member outside the inner London constituencies to claim interest on the mortgage for a home near Westminster remains untouched.
   • The website helps Liberal Democrat voters in the two constituencies to find Labour supporters living in constituencies elsewhere in the country where Labour has no hope of winning.
   • The Conservative Party plans to use marketing software to identify potential supporters in key constituencies then telephone them to try to win their votes.
   • She thanked voters in the Bolton West constituency for the support they had shown for her campaign.
   • This year the scheme will be extended to 200,000 people in 15 wards in the parliamentary constituencies of Brightside, Central and Hallam.

   Synonyms

   neighbourhood, area, region, place, locality, locale, community, quarter, sector, vicinity, zone, territory, block, part, spot, patch, domain
2. 1.2 A group of people with shared interests or political opinions.
   the right needed to move beyond its blue-blood constituency

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The network will also take a look at constituencies with key Asian interests across the country.
   • If the newspaper is looking for a constituency to support it, we are here and waiting for you.
   • The implication here is that there is something wrong with parties serving the interests of particular constituencies, that instead they ought somehow to be above, well, politics.
   • The concrete situation is in any case one where there are a number of different united fronts, each with its own distinct political constituencies.
   • But local and family history has built up a political constituency that ought to be respected.
   • Our image as a low-key, behind-the-scenes supporter of a small, niche constituency is gone.
   • The eclectic newspaper package offered every constituency something special.
   • There is no constituency for protectionism, all the big firms want to go offshore because the labor savings are large.
   • Five contenders for the rural constituency were asked their opinion on a decision to shelve flood defence plans for Pickering.
   • I think what we are looking at here is a new progressive political movement that will go beyond November in realigning political constituencies in this country.
   • Camp leadership should be able to live comfortably with its decisions, if those decisions are made with the advice and consideration of the constituencies supporting the camp.
   • With guns at least, there obviously is a very real constituency for anti-gun-control activism.
   • There are some people in that music scene who are defining a political constituency and using it as a voting bloc to effect social change.
   • Such is the sullenness towards him in some constituencies of opinion that they don't want to hear him when he wants to reach out to them.
   • A major Democratic constituency, the feminist left, expects a fight against any of his nominees.
   • And when the time came to work on projects, his constituency readily supported many of his decisions.
   • It served to insulate agricultural policy both from competing domestic political constituencies and from American demands for trade liberalization.
   • A proliferation of media outlets emerged to serve specialized interests and constituencies as a consequence of economic reform.
   • Like the Dalai Lama, she would then be able to work the relevant political and media constituencies.
   • Such ranking is carried out to respond to the interests of political constituencies and not primarily to the interests of the students engaged in the business of learning.
   • We internet junkies, like the direct mail discussed in the article, are a very narrow constituency.
   • Should the lazy idiot constituency be encouraged to influence society even more than it already does?
   • These local leaders also need a constituency that will support their efforts to take new steps to encourage that viability.
   • In doing so, the danger also exist that we might accentuate Africa's post-colonial particularity where politicians seek public office to serve ethnic constituencies.
   • Encouraged by the economic difficulties of the 1920s, the party system began to fragment as political groups sought to represent the particular interests of their constituencies.
   • Military power has a way of creating some political constituencies for itself.
   • They rather spend more time on their personal business and respective interests in the constituency from where they hail.
   • But to succeed in elections, they must appeal to their core constituency of extremely conservative voters in the south.
   • That is an awful lot of political constituencies to which accountability is required.
   • So, we are dealing with a very powerful constituency of religious nuts now doing the muscle work for a criminal political gang.
   • They faced little opposition because there were as yet no e-books, and thus no constituency of readers for them.
   • The African American constituency isn't going to fall for this nonsense.
   • In fact, to read through most rap lyrics is to wonder which adults or political constituencies wouldn't take offense.
   • The nature and interests of these constituencies were varied and illustrated the different ways in which working people had responded to the challenges of modernization.
   • Now, according to at least some pollsters, his support among that core constituency is slipping.
   • It was designed to appeal to an urban, affluent constituency.
   • There's no great Palestinian constituency for starting another one.
   • The network's persuasiveness with Democratic constituencies and other voters will be the ultimate sign of how much of a breakthrough this online campaign achieves.