circunscripción

constituency

noun seer-koons-kreep-SYOHN Rare

Origin: From Latin circumscriptio, from circumscribere (to draw a circle around).

Also means

electoral district

Usage Note

Circunscripción is used in political and administrative contexts to mean an electoral constituency or district: circunscripción electoral. In Spain, each provincia is a circunscripción for general elections. The word is formal and does not appear much in everyday speech; distrito or circunscripción are used depending on the level of government.

Examples

"Cada provincia es una circunscripción electoral."

Natural Translation

Each province is an electoral constituency.

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