electoral unit

Summary

electoral unit ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (269 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 (269 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]