The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state.
A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.
A geographical area, established in accordance with Georgia Election Code 21-2-2 within which all electors vote at one polling place.
A usually contiguous geographical area in which the adult citizens are assigned a single voting booth to cast their election ballots. In some states it is called an ``election district.'' Occasionally several physical voting booths exist within one precinct. The precinct-level electoral data files which constitute the central element of the ROAD datasets have this as their unit of observation.
a local voting district in a county or city
a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes
a creation of the political world for electoral data
a geographical area in which all the voters have the same voting rights
an election district with a polling place
a subdivision of a city set up for election purposes
Each precinct has at least one voting or polling location. Several precincts make up one Congressional District.
Any elections precinct, an administrative subdivision. From ORS 246.012
the smallest geographic area in US voting subdivisions, in which local party officials are elected. A precinct usually has from 200 to 1,000 voters in it. Each precinct has an elected precinct captain (the neighborhood party leader). The purpose of a precinct is vote for a candidate and to elect delegates who will go to the city or county convention, and relay the precinct's vote for that candidate.
A subdivision or district of a city or town under the jurisdiction of or patrolled by a specific unit of its police force, or, an election district of a city or town.
An administrative division of a county or municipality consisting of a contiguous geographic area defined by a map to which voters have been assigned by their residence addresses for voting at an election.
a geographic area that contains a specific number of voters
smallest, most local unit in the typical structure of political parties at the local level. Precincts act as voting districts, and cover an area of several blocks.
Geographic subdivision of city, town or county, used to describe the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace or for election purposes.
