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Constituency

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Constituency

A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. It can be used to describe a business's customer base and shareholders, or a charity's donors or those it serves. The most common meaning of constituency occurs in politics and means either the group of people from whom an individual or organization hopes to attract support, or the group of people or geographical area that a particular elected representative or group of elected representatives represents.

A "'constituent" is any member of a constituency, including those who didn't vote for an elected representative.

The term is frequently used in US politics. In most democracies the term is not that relevant, since the electorate is represented by more than one elected legislator, and the elected legislator has a responsibility to all the electorate rather than to his constituents. In the US system electorate and constituents are identical groups, but that is not the case in representative democracies. The electorate are all who can vote in the election (e.g. to the parliament), but the constituents are only those who can vote for a particular candidate in that election.

In US political campaigns the terms is often used to divide the legislator's electorate into separate groups, for instance along racial lines, religious lines, cultural lines, sexual preference lines, etc. (e.g., 'the LGBT constituency', which shall be interpreted as the intersection of the LGBT community, and the Constituency).

Outreach to a constituency

The franking privilege in the United States Congress allows elected members to freely send direct mail to their entire constituency.

Core constituency

The term "core constituency" is sometimes used to refer to a base of supporters. The constituency of a member of Congress, for instance, might be every citizen in his district, but his core constituency could be the people who voted for him in the last election.

ee also

*Constituent country

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  • Constituency — Con*stit u*en*cy (k[o^]n*st[ict]t [ u]*[ e]n*s[y^]), n.; pl. {Constituencies} (k[o^]n*st[ict]t [ u]*[ e]n*s[i^]z). A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • constituency — 1> собир. избиратели 2> избирательный округ 3> ам. разг. клиентура 4> ам. разг. подписчики (какого л. издания) …   Новый большой англо-русский словарь

  • constituency — kənˈstɪtjuənsɪ сущ. 1) коллект. избиратели, электорат (люди, обладающие правом голоса) 2) избирательный округ 3) а) амер.; разг. клиентура (покупатели, посетители магазинов, подписчики газет и журналов и т.д.) б) …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь

  • constituency — сущ. 1) пол. избиратели, электорат (люди, обладающие правом голоса и поддерживающие того или иного кандидата) The leader s natural constituency is the working… …   Англо-русский экономический словарь

  • constituency — noun (plural cies) Date: 1831 1. a. a body of citizens entitled to elect a representative (as to a legislative or executive position) b. the residents in an electoral district c. an electoral district 2 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • constituency — /keuhn stich ooh euhn see/, n., pl. constituencies. 1. a body of constituents; the voters or residents in a district represented by an elective officer. 2. the district itself. 3. any body of supporters, customers, etc.; clientele. [1825 35;… …   Universalium

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  • constituency — клиентура ; покупатели ; заказчики ; избирательный округ ; избиратели ; …   Англо-Русский словарь финансовых терминов

  • constituency — kənˈstɪtjuənsɪизбиратели, избирательный округ, клиентура (покупатели, подписчики) …   Англо-русский словарь экономических терминов

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  • Forum Communist Russia., 1990 — Annotation: Sretsvypusk of the party conference, transformed into the founding congress of the Communist Party of the RSFSR. Film description: Special Issue of the Constituent Congress of the…