constituencies

Definition

The electoral districts and the voters within them that politicians must charm, serve, or at least pretend to remember during campaign season. Each constituency elects representatives to speak for their interests, forming the geographic building blocks of democratic representation. They're also convenient to blame when politicians make unpopular decisions ("my constituency demanded it").

Example Usage

The senator carefully balanced the competing interests of her rural and urban constituencies, which agreed on absolutely nothing.

Source: Common political terminology

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