What is electoral costituency
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An electoral district, (election) precinct, election district, or legislative district, called a voting district by the US Census[1] (also known as a constituency, riding, ward, division, electoral area, or electorate) is a territorial subdivision for electing members to a legislative body. Generally, only voters (constituents) who reside within the district are permitted to vote in an election held there. From a single district, a single member or multiple members might be chosen. Members might be chosen by a first-past-the-postsystem or a proportional representativesystem, or another voting method entirely. Members might be chosen through a direct election under universal suffrage, an indirect election, or another form of suffrage.
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In my view this is an integral part of the Westminster Paliamentarty system. Each Country is divided up into nearly equal population centres. The number of constituants equals the numbers of the elected members of Parliament. In UK it is about 650 in Australia it is 169.
Voting at general elections is based on each constituency and the voters elect one member to represent them in the Parliament.
The Government is then decided by the party that has the majority of members elected. All Ministers and Cabinet members must come from the elected body, unlike the US system.
UK and Australia have different rules re voting and how votes re counted. The Australian system in compulsory voting and a proportional representative system which means that in order to be elected a person must get more that 50% of the enrolled voters.
In Uk it is non compulsory and a first past the post system. So if only 20% of UK voters turn out in one constituency it is possible to ge elected on only 10.1 % of the eligible voters
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