Sentence examples for tribal constituency from inspiring English sources

All four winners came from the three (of five) primarily urban districts but a fifth woman, lawyer Thekra al-Rashidi, got 6,635 votes in a tribal constituency.

In this study, a higher blood pressure threshold was set and the population being screened was predominantly rural with a distinct tribal constituency largely made up of the Bukusu tribe.

Afghanistan is a loosely aligned collection of tribal constituencies.

He bought off key tribal constituencies with land grants, new district boundaries, concessions to sugar farmers and so on.

It is the more rural and tribal constituencies where Nota was used most often".

Ghani has many rivalries, competing interests, tribal constituencies and a GDP entirely dependent on external largesse to balance.

Voters are becoming less tribal and constituency MPs are finding themselves more answerable to then.

Leaders of some of Libya's biggest tribal groups, important constituencies in a country that has only recently urbanised, have openly turned against him.

The coalition government had "no comprehension" of the insurgency, said a former interior minister, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, whose parliamentary constituency adjoins the tribal areas.

Constituency boundaries favour tribal rural areas by assigning one MP to a population of 2,000 to 3,000 voters whereas there are more than 90,000 voters for each MP in the traditionally more Islamist or liberal areas of Amman.

In a constituency as split down tribal lines as this one, who will be MP for Wirral West on 8 May will come down to which tribe is the most successful at energising its base, he admits.