electoral unit

territorial division made or used for elections
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electoral unit

Summary

electoral unit ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,392 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • electoral unit is a type of administrative territorial entity[2].
  • electoral unit is a type of political territorial entity[3].
  • electoral unit is part of representative democracy[4].
  • electoral unit is part of electoral college[5].
  • electoral unit's Commons category is recorded as Constituencies[6].
  • electoral unit comprises single-member district[7].
  • electoral unit's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Constituencies[8].
  • electoral unit's described at URL is recorded as https://github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-placetypes#constituency[9].
  • electoral unit's facet of is recorded as voting[10].
  • electoral unit's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as boundary=political[11].
  • electoral unit's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[12].
  • electoral unit's partially coincident with is recorded as ward[13].
  • electoral unit's has characteristic is recorded as equality[14].
  • electoral unit's has characteristic is recorded as connectedness[15].
  • electoral unit's main Wikidata property is recorded as P768[16].
  • electoral unit's main Wikidata property is recorded as P4565[17].
  • electoral unit's main Wikidata property is recorded as P4253[18].
  • electoral unit's main Wikidata property is recorded as P7938[19].
  • electoral unit's different from is recorded as electoral unit[20].
  • electoral unit's properties for this type is recorded as P17[21].
  • electoral unit's properties for this type is recorded as P131[22].
  • electoral unit's properties for this type is recorded as P527[23].
  • electoral unit's properties for this type is recorded as P1705[24].
  • electoral unit's properties for this type is recorded as P1448[25].
  • electoral unit's properties for this type is recorded as P571[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include administrative territorial entity[2] and political territorial entity[3].

Use and Application

electoral unit comprises single-member district[7]. Part of include representative democracy[4], a form of government[27] and electoral college[5].

Why It Matters

electoral unit ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,392 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 90 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · PinTweaks · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'br', 'ca', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'el',
    Sitelink count → 67
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||tr */ Cleanup: remove wikimedia refs; remove alias=label/mul ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  2. 16d ago · Zache · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14864 → vaalipiiri
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P14864]]: vaalipiiri, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1789608241467"
  3. 6w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Logistello
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  4. 10w ago · Chalmd · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bbc things id → f31b8647-8ac4-4d1e-ba0e-2ebf75da6411
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1617]]: f31b8647-8ac4-4d1e-ba0e-2ebf75da6411, Adding BBC Things ID"
  5. 11w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ávvir topic id → valgabiiret, valgabiirret
    Postimees topic id → 28236, 16775
    Ysa id → Y110610
    Svkkl authority id → 0308460-volebni-obvody
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ [[Property:P459]]: [[Q1266546]], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260983|batch #260983]]"
  6. 17w ago · Yupik · 2026-06-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ávvir topic id → valgabiiret, valgabiirret
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P9318]]: valgabiiret"
  7. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has parts → —
    Part of → representative democracy, electoral college
    Has part(s) → single-member district
    Has characteristic → equality, connectedness
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 4067, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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