legislative district

collocation in English

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legislative
adjective
uk
/ˈledʒ.ɪ.slə.tɪv/us
/ˈledʒ.ə.slə.t̬ɪv/
relating to laws or the making ...
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district
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/us
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/
an area of a country or town that has fixed borders that are used for official purposes, or that has a particular feature that makes it different from ...
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(Definition oflegislativeanddistrictfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The congressional district, as compared to the statelegislativedistrict, would thus not serve to define any particularity at all.
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It is made up of 70 members, two from eachlegislativedistrict.
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In political science, this type oflegislativedistrictis called a multi-member district.
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Two of the proposed library closings were in hislegislativedistrict.
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Eachlegislativedistrictelects one senator and three delegates.
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The speaker exercises administrative and procedural functions, but remains a representative of hislegislativedistrict.
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He represented the 125thlegislativedistrictfrom 1989 through 2006.
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Caucus meetings are grouped bylegislativedistrictand divided by precincts with each precinct electing delegates who attend their respective party's state nominating convention.
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The only part of the state she carried was her formerlegislativedistrict, by plurality.
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According to her testimony, he worked exclusively on his successful campaign for the 16thlegislativedistrict.
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Creation of province or a city inherently involves the power to create alegislativedistrict.
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The province was represented as a lonelegislativedistrictuntil 1972.
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Some of the larger districts are divided into delegate subdistricts to provide local representation to areas not large enough to constitute an entirelegislativedistrict.
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Eachlegislativedistrictis supposed to have a population of 250,000.
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The province was a lonelegislativedistrictuntil 1972.
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There has been bipartisan support for a proposal to establish a nonpartisan commission to establishlegislativedistrictboundaries.
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A prospective legislator must have resided for the six months prior to election in thelegislativedistrictthe candidate seeks to represent.
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In subsequently elections, he ran in the 9th statelegislativedistrict; he held this seat until 1972.
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As with aides, unpaid staff have varying levels of responsibility based on thelegislativedistrictand the staffer's level of education or experience.
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Eleven members of each house are elected at-large rather than from a specificlegislativedistrictwith all members being elected for a four-year term without term limits.
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