Sentence examples for Geographic constituency from inspiring English sources

Each member represents a single geographic constituency.

Rather, it is an extra-legislative variant of pork barrel politics: parochial activity by delegates to deliver targeted public goods to the geographic constituency.

For elections to the House of Commons in London, members are elected by plurality vote in single-member geographic constituencies.

But Hong Kong has a complex system of multiple-seat geographic constituencies, in which voters choose slates of candidates.

Furthermore, representation of geographic constituencies by majority or plurality voting disguises many differences in the electorate's composition and preferences.

But his significance goes beyond that of standing at the point of intersection between the various Palestinian national trends and geographic constituencies.

The five lawmakers, one in each of Hong Kong's five multi-seat geographic constituencies, triggered the by-elections by resigning their seats on the Legislative Council in January.

Six of its 10 members in the 60-member legislature represent geographic constituencies open to voting by the general public, which has turned out huge demonstrations against the bill.

The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in Beijing ruled in 2007 that any expansion of the legislature would have to create equal numbers of functional and geographic constituencies.

Regina Ip, a former secretary of security who mounted an unsuccessful effort in 2003 to introduce stringent internal security legislation, led her nascent political group, the pro-Beijing New People's Party, to win a seat in each of two geographic constituencies in the new legislature, a strong showing for a small organization.

The first steps for Congress will be organizing the knowledge of geographic constituencies so that it is trusted and relevant, and then integrated into the stodgy, old processes of lawmaking.