Precinct may refer to:
* An
electoral precinct
A precinct, voting district, polling division, or polling district, is a subdivision of an electoral district, typically a contiguous area within which all electors go to a single polling place to cast their ballots.
Canada
In elections in Ca ...
* A
police precinct
In the United States, a police precinct or ward is a geographical area patrolled by a police force. The term "precinct" may also refer to the main police station for such a geographical area.
Practices and cultures of policing often vary conside ...
* A
religious precinct
A religious or sacred precinct is the area around a religious site, such as a temple, that is dedicated to religious purposes. A religious precinct may be defined by a physical enclosure, although this is not always the case. Religious precincts ...
* A
shopping precinct or
shopping mall
A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...
** A
Pedestrian zone
Pedestrian zones (also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones, as pedestrian precincts in British English, and as pedestrian malls in the United States and Australia) are areas of a city or town reserved for pedestrian-only use and in whi ...
Places
* A
neighborhood, in Australia
* A unit of
public housing in Singapore
Public housing in Singapore is subsidised, built and managed by the Government of Singapore. Starting in the 1930s, the country's first public housing was built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) in a similar fashion to contemporaneous ...
* A former electoral subdivision of the
wards of the City of London
The City of London (also known simply as "the City") is divided into 25 wards. The city is the historic core of the much wider metropolis of Greater London, with an ancient and '' sui generis'' form of local government, which avoided the many ...
that elected a Common Councilman
* A Texas electoral district that elects a member of a
commissioners' court
Commissioners' court, or in Arkansas a quorum court, is the governing body of county government in three US states: Arkansas, Texas and Missouri. It is similar in function to a board of county commissioners. A similar system was in place in the ...
or a
Texas constable
In the U.S. state of Texas, a constable is an elected law enforcement officer for a precinct of a county. Counties may have between one and eight precincts each depending on their population.
The constables are provided for in the Texas Consti ...
* A
minor civil division in certain US states including Nebraska and Illinois
** See
List of precincts in Illinois
Of the 102 counties in the state of Illinois, 17 are divided into minor civil divisions known as precincts. The 261 such precincts in Illinois are listed below. The remaining 85 counties are divided into 1,433 townships. Despite this distinction ...
*
Precinct, Missouri Precinct is an unincorporated community in Bollinger County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
History
A post office called Precinct was established in 1902, and closed in 1904. The community most likely was named for an election precinct
A preci ...
* Upper and Lower Precinct, a pedestrianised shopping area in
Coventry
Coventry ( or ) is a city in the West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages. The city is governed b ...
, England
Arts
* ''
The Precinct'', a 2010 movie
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