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Election district   /ɪlˈɛkʃən dˈɪstrɪkt/   Listen
Election district

noun
1.
One of several districts into which a city or town is divided for voting; each contains one polling place.  Synonym: voting precinct.






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"Election district" Quotes from Famous Books



... is no constitutional basis or provision for American political parties, nevertheless each of the great parties has built up a powerful organization which cordinates party members in every part of the country. In practically every township, village, election district, and city ward there are party agents and local committees whose work it is to promote the interests of the party both at election time and between elections. The local party workers constitute a link between individual voters and the county or ...
— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson

... one man or woman from each elective district in the county, and the city committee one from each ward or election district in ...
— Citizenship - A Manual for Voters • Emma Guy Cromwell

... people of the United States are sovereign only within the territory of the United States. The great body of the freemen have the elective franchise, but no one has it save in his State, his county, his town, his ward, his precinct. Out of the election district in which he is domiciled, a citizen of the United States has no more right to vote than has the citizen or subject of a foreign state. This explains what is meant by the attachment of power to the territory, and ...
— The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny • A. O. Brownson



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