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 the group of people or geographical area that a particular elected representative or group of elected representatives represents. The rest of this article deals with this sense of constituency.

France

In France, electoral constituencies are known as circonscriptions électorales.

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For parliamentary elections, they are known as circonscriptions législatives, and for departemental one, France uses cantons.

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