Talk:Q192611
Autodescription — electoral unit (Q192611)
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For the property, see electoral district (P768).
Needed qualifiers[edit]
This element type should be qualified: the constituency is defined normally as a child of another higher level area where there's an elected assembly/council: the persons wualified with the property electoral district (P768) are elected for a specific election (they need a date) on that constituency (technically they are not required to represent the electors of their constituency and frequently will be representing all electors in all constuencies of the heigher level area/
I propose using a "for" qualifier (normally repeated) whose value will be the precise constituency (the area as defined for a specific election, because elections for a higher-level area will frequently change their constituencies).
Note: a constitutency is not necessarily a territorial subdivision of the higher level area; it may be a separation of electors by elector type, and there also exists constituencies for electors located abroad (whose area is a group of countries). Some elections may also have multiple types of contituencies (with different colleges, each college subdivided territorialy differently).
Finally, some assemblees/councils may have both elected members (in their consitutencies) and seats designated by another authority (e.g. high-governors or lieutenant-governors in Crown dependencies or British overseas), or elected by the initial elected assemblee (indirect elections, such as US presidential elections, or presidents of assemblees/councils elected among representants elected to the governing council).
Some assemblees are also grouping themselves in other higher-level councils meeting on special occasions (e.g. the Congrès for Constitutional affairs in France, or Congress in US), or for regular operations (e.g. local authorities grouping municipalities, where each municipality elects within its own council their representants to take seat in the local authority, which then elects its own president). Verdy p (talk) 13:59, 16 July 2018 (UTC)