constituency (con|stitu|ency)

noun (plural constituencies)

• a group of voters in a specified area who elect a representative to a legislative body: most politicians are more interested in the voice of their constituency
• chiefly British an area whose voters elect a representative to a legislative body: a parliamentary candidate in the Hampstead and Highgate constituency
• a group of people with shared interests or political opinions: the right needed to move beyond its blue-blood constituency