Unlike Miss America, these queens represented the full spectrum of their constituency, mainly Irish, Italian, Latina and Jewish.
Shas's constituency, mainly working-class Jews whose families came to Israel from other Middle Eastern countries, is a large and important one.
Morsi still enjoys the legitimacy (albeit rapidly eroding) of popular election and has a sizeable Islamist constituency, mainly in rural Egypt.
The PNC staged more protests after the 2001 parliamentary elections, when it seemed to many that the PPP would continue to win control of the government simply because their constituency, mainly South Asians, was the majority population in the country.
"We can't be part of a government that is going to continue the occupation of West Bank, the siege and constant attacks on Gaza, or the discriminatory policies towards our constituency, mainly the Arab community," he told VICE News.
His constituency consisted mainly of Drumchapel, one of the four sprawling council estates that mark each corner of the city, areas of intense social deprivation.
The constituencies attributed this mainly to the Corbyn effect.
And far from dividing communities on ethnic or religious lines, he won majorities in every part of the constituency, including the mainly white areas.
Yet, because parties are necessarily alliances of disparate constituencies, political scientists have mainly regarded them as a healthy way of counteracting the power of single-issue interest groups.
Many of the defectors were so-called "Blue Dog" Democrats: representatives from mainly rural constituencies in states such as Alabama and Tennessee, who know that if they follow the party line they face annihilation in mid-term elections next year.
