In this, the second smallest constituency in the country, divided between two very distinct island communities, the local member of parliament has a far higher profile personally and plays a far more significant public role than an urban MP in, for example, Glasgow.
But they were both niche candidates who spoke to small constituencies (libertarians in Paul's case, journalists in Huntsman's).
Year after year the Blue Dogs shovel billions of dollars to their small constituency of rich farmers concentrated in only twenty-one of the 435 congressional districts.
He quickly became leader of the Labour group on Newcastle upon Tyne council, entering parliament in 1951 for the small constituency of Newcastle Central.
To elected officials, the unemployed are a relatively small constituency.
Alas, my mother was preaching to a very small constituency.
There are, to be sure, commuters who would love NFC in the DC, NYC, and SF metros, and that's not a small constituency.
Peterborough is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, sharing the name of a smaller constituency represented in the Parliament of England until 1707 and then in that of Great Britain until 1800.
But A. James Reichley, a senior political analyst at the Brookings Institution, said that without the Electoral College minor party candidates or those with relatively small constituencies would gain leverage in national elections.
Apart from the Scottish constituencies of Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Orkney & Shetland and Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross, all the smallest constituencies are in Wales.
