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electoral unit

Also known as electoral area, riding, parliamentary seat, parliamentary constituency, electoral division, assembly constituency, political district, voting district

territorial division made or used for elections

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An electoral unit is a geographic area used to organize elections and determine how many representatives each region gets. It matters because how these areas are drawn directly affects which candidates can win and how much influence different communities have in government.

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Part of: electoral college
Has part: single-member district

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OpenStreetMap tag: boundary=political
topic's main category: Category:Constituencies
Commons category: Constituencies
partially coincident with: ward
described at URL: github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-placetypes#constituency
has characteristic: connectedness
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
facet of: voting

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