Topic summary
circonscription
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Electoral district.
Terminology
In Canadian English, the term electoral district is used officially, but they are colloquially known as a riding or constituency. In some parts of Canada, constituency is used for provincial districts and riding for federal districts. In colloquial Canadian French, they are called comtés ("counties"), while circonscriptions comtés is the legal term. In Australian and New Zealand English, electoral districts are called electorates, while the term electorate refers to the entire body of voters.