electoral unit
territorial division made or used for elections
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Summary
electoral unit ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,551 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: administrative territorial entity[2], political territorial entity[3]
- Part of: representative democracy[4], electoral college[5]
- Commons category: Constituencies[6]
- Has part(s): single-member district[7]
- Topic's main category: Category:Constituencies[8]
- Described at URL: https://github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-placetypes#constituency[9]
- Facet of: voting[10]
- OpenStreetMap tag: boundary=political[11]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[12]
- Partially coincident with: ward[13]
- Has characteristic: equality[14], connectedness[15]
- Main Wikidata property: P768[16], P4565[17], P4253[18], P7938[19]
- Different from: electoral unit[20]
- Properties for this type: P17[21], P131[22], P527[23], P1705[24], P1448[25], P571[26], P576[27], P1082[28], P92[29], P4565[30], P625[31], P3896[32]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[33]
- P14692: Logistello[34]
- P14864: vaalipiiri[35]
Why It Matters
electoral unit has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] It is known by 90 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]