Sentence examples for designated constituency from inspiring English sources

About half of the elected members now also serve on municipal councils, while the remainder serve at large and are therefore not beholden to a designated constituency.

Most of the lawmakers from the designated constituencies tend to support Beijing, possibly because many of them have business interests in mainland China.

As an outer-London MP, Cohen could have claimed the London supplement, instead of the second-home allowance, if he had designated his constituency home as his main home.

It found that Mr Laws had not only broken the rules by claiming rent paid to a landlord who was also his partner, but had also overpaid for the accommodation, wrongly designated his constituency home as his main residence and made unwarranted claims for phone bills and building work.The commissioner praised Mr Laws for repaying over £56,000.

He has been ruled to have breached several rules: the fact of the payments to Mr Lundie, the excessive value of those payments (£200 to £300 above the monthly market rate, apparently), wrongly designating his constituency residence as his main home, and wrongly claiming for building work and telephone bills.

Julie Kirkbride, Conservative MP for Bromsgrove Two weeks ago, her husband, Andrew MacKay, the Tory MP for Bracknell, admitted that for eight or nine years he had designated Kirkbride's constituency flat as his main home, allowing him to claim allowances on their London house.

An electoral division which is a GRC returns the number of MPs designated for the constituency by the President to serve in Parliament.

Hong Kong's electoral rules ensured that half of Legco's 60 seats were for rotten boroughs, so-called functional constituencies of designated business and professional groups.

In 2009, the Daily Telegraph reported that she had claimed more than £4,500 for work on her home in her Enfield constituency, before switching her designated second home to a flat in south London.

The track would pass through the Chilterns, part of her constituency which has been designated an area of outstanding natural beauty.

The investigation began with the disclosure that Mrs Miller designated cottages which she rented in her constituency of Basingstoke, Hants, as her main residence and claimed expenses on her London property where her parents also lived.