Constituencies in a sentence

However, he indicated that some constituencies with special challenges had been suspended, adding that elections in such constituencies would take place at yet to be communicated date.

According to a sun.mv news portal report, PNC contested for 90 constituencies, while main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) contested for 89 constituencies.

Gujarat will see voting in all 26 constituencies in a single phase, and two constituencies of Goa will also vote in the third phase of elections.

A total of 93 elected seats are at stake -- in 17 group representation constituencies and 14 single-member constituencies.

Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has advised chiefs in Mangochi to use their influence in nurturing peace ahead of the by-elections, the electoral body is holding in two constituencies in the district and three constituencies in other districts.

MPs can also help improve constituency relations by making regular visits to constituencies, particularly while Parliament is on recess and, in some cases, establishing offices in their respective constituencies.

The government also maintains weekly “Meet-the-People” sessions across all constituencies in Singapore, where MPs meet face-to-face with their constituencies to address any concerns they want to raise.

They found that constituencies reserved for women were less likely—compared to unreserved constituencies—to elect members of groups where the status of women was low.

In her remarks, shadow parliamentarians in the three visited constituencies Chikumbutso Likandawe, Hasheem Banda and Loveness Mulombe expressed optimism to win and lead their constituencies from poverty to prosperity.

The byelections to two constituencies – Rajarajeshwari Nagar (N Munirathna) and Maski (Pratapgouda Patil) – have not been scheduled for December 5 as various other cases from these constituencies are in Court.

The party has however indicated a hold on elections at the Asawase and Ellembelle constituencies as well as three other constituencies due to petitions by some of the aspirants.

These include three Muslim-dominated constituencies Nuh, Firozpur Jhirka and Punhana, and the hardcore Jat-dominated constituencies of Beri, Jhajjar, Baroda, Meham, Badli and Garhi Sampla-Kiloi.

Its members are elected for a four-year term. The election threshold is 5%, but it only applies to the multi-seat constituencies and the compensation seats, not the single-seat constituencies.

Senate constituencies were created by grouping all lower-chamber districts in a region, or by dividing a region into two constituencies of contiguous lower-chamber districts.

The Act split all county constituencies (which were represented by multiple MPs) into single-member constituencies, roughly corresponding to population patterns.

These two constituencies were created in 2011 as two of the nine constituencies within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region.

This system usually results in more populated counties having several constituencies: Dublin, including Dublin city, is subdivided into twelve constituencies, Cork into five.

Tully ensured that there were as many as possible three-seat constituencies where the governing parties were strong, in the expectation that the governing parties would each win a seat in many constituencies, relegating Fianna Fáil to one out of three.

A common refrain heard across Karnataka’s two most backward districts — Raichur and Yadgir — covering 11 Assembly constituencies, is the large number of unemployed educated youths in the villages.

Assembly elections in Telangana saw a high-octane campaign by parties, which saw their bigwigs descend on a slew of constituencies across the state, especially in the final leg of the electioneering.