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27-544: The South Meetinghouse is a historic ward hall at 260 Marcy Street (corner of Meeting House Hill) in Portsmouth, New Hampshire . Completed in 1866, it is one of the city's finest examples of Italianate architecture , and a rare surviving example of a 19th-century ward hall. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It continues to be used as a community resource. The South Meetinghouse

54-650: A ku (or 区 in Japanese writing ) is an administrative unit of one of the larger cities, closely equivalent to the divisions or wards of a London Borough or a New York Borough. In Vietnam , a phường is an administrative subunit of an inner city district, or quận . Wards and electoral divisions of Nepal are political divisions which are grouped into Gaunpalika ( Rural council ) and Municipality . A rural municipality or municipality has minimum of five and maximum of 33 divisions. Electoral division (Ireland) An electoral division ( ED , Irish : toghroinn )

81-580: A boundary commissioner review every 12 years, and the wards were last redefined in 2012 by the Department of the Environment of the then Northern Ireland Executive . Because of the 1919 change, DEDs have no independent use in what is now the Republic of Ireland ; however, they remained legally defined units used in civil registration , land registration , statistical reporting, and as references for specifying

108-507: A few came to cross county/county-borough boundaries which had been adjusted. The Local Government Act 1994 substituted the name "electoral division" to replace both the names "district electoral division" (as used in counties) and "ward" (as used in county boroughs, themselves renamed "cities" by the Local Government Act 2001 ). This change was commenced in 1996. Ward boundaries had been revised more often than those of DEDs. There are

135-491: A total of 3,440 EDs in the state, with an average population of 1,447 and average area of 20.4 square kilometres (5,000 acres). Populations now vary widely, ranging in 2016 from 38,894 for Blanchardstown – Blakestown in Fingal to 12 for Lackagh, North Tipperary and 7 for Ballynaneashagh, Waterford City . The DED/ED has been the lowest level of detail for printed census publications since independence. To maintain confidentiality,

162-528: Is a legally defined administrative area in the Republic of Ireland , generally comprising multiple townlands , and formerly a subdivision of urban and rural districts . Until 1996, EDs were known as district electoral divisions ( DEDs , toghroinn ceantair ) in the 29 county council areas and wards in the five county boroughs . Until 1972, DEDs also existed in Northern Ireland . The predecessor poor law electoral divisions were introduced throughout

189-546: Is located in Portsmouth's southern residential area, at the northwest corner of Marcy Street and Meeting House Hill. Oriented facing Marcy Street, it is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Italianate stylistic elements of the exterior include round-headed windows, and a bracketed roof at the top of its two-stage tower. The main entrance is sheltered by a Greek Revival four-column porch with Doric columns and an Ionic entablature, which extends

216-626: The Central Statistics Office (CSO) amalgamates 32 EDs with low population into neighbouring EDs in the presentation of detailed census data. Conversely, more populous EDs are subdivided to provide Small Area Population Statistics (SAPS); whereas sub-DED data could previously be requested from the CSO for a fee, SAPS data has been published online since 2002. The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) classification for Ireland formerly specified as "local administrative unit" (LAU)

243-587: The United Kingdom , and the United States , wards are an electoral district , within a district or municipality , used in local government elections. In the United States, wards are usually subdivided into precincts for polling purposes. In Wisconsin, a 'ward' is what in most other states would be a precinct In some cities of India , such as Mumbai and Delhi , a ward is an administrative unit of

270-600: The Wards of the City of London , where gatherings for each ward known as "wardmotes" have taken place since the 12th century. The word was much later applied to divisions of other cities and towns in England and Wales and Ireland . In parts of northern England , a ward was an administrative subdivision of a county , very similar to a hundred in other parts of England. In Australia , Canada , New Zealand , South Africa , Sri Lanka ,

297-478: The polling districts for Westminster elections . Whereas the 1841–1891 censuses had been broken down by civil parish and townland, those of 1901 and 1911 were broken down by DED and townland. The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1919 mandated the single transferable vote (STV) from the 1920 local elections , and the LGBI created multi-seat "district electoral areas" by combining one-seat and two-seat DEDs. After

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324-506: The 1920–22 partition of Ireland , the Stormont government took over the LGBI's powers within Northern Ireland ; power to define DEDs fell initially to the Minister of Home Affairs , later to the Minister of Health and Local Government , and finally to the Minister of Development . The Parliament of Northern Ireland abolished STV in 1922 and returned to "district electoral divisions" instead of

351-715: The Commissioners to ignore this restriction when constituting a large town into a single electoral division and dividing it into "wards" for poor law elections. Typically, poor law wards matched pre-existing municipal ward boundaries, though the respective electoral franchises differed. In 1872, the Poor Law Commissioners were replaced by the Local Government Board for Ireland (LGBI) which had broader powers. The Commissioners and LGBI had power to revise most local boundaries, including electoral divisions. Returns of

378-524: The DEDs of the same names. The worsening of the Troubles meant direct rule was introduced in 1972 ; among the changes intended to conciliate nationalists was the reintroduction of STV for the 1973 local elections , based on district electoral areas made up of multiple wards. The term "district electoral division" is obsolete, " ward " being used instead. The Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 requires

405-407: The LGBI split it into two DEDs, <Name> Urban and <Name> Rural. In general, a town or city's DEDs and wards were given the same boundaries, and a town not divided into wards formed a single DED; however, there were cases of multiple wards in a single DED and vice versa. County electoral divisions (for the county council) were formed from groups of DEDs. The 1898 changes also made DEDs

432-628: The case of a municipal amalgamation , the former cities and towns that make up the new metropolis may be referred to as wards. In Monaco , wards are informal divisions of the country, grouped into quartiers. In the Republic of Ireland , urban divisions were called wards and rural ones were called district electoral divisions . Both were renamed as electoral divisions in 1996. The electoral districts for Irish local authorities are local electoral areas . These are generally defined as combinations of electoral divisions, and in urban areas were formally described as combination of wards. In Japan ,

459-515: The city region; a city area is divided into Zones, which in turn contain numerous wards. The smallest administrative unit of Gram Panchayats in India is also known as a ward. In Bangladesh wards are subdivisions of a city or town which administrates under City Corporations and municipalities ( pourashova ) In East Africa, the word ward used in English is translated into Swahili/Kiswahili as Kata. In

486-408: The corresponding PLU. By contrast, urban districts had separate elections for councillors (elected from wards) and PLU guardians (elected from DEDs). The LGBI got temporary power to redraw boundaries to adapt to the 1898 act, which as regards DEDs it used mainly around municipal areas ( county boroughs , urban districts, and towns with commissioners ). If a municipal border crossed <Name> DED,

513-549: The intention of producing areas roughly equivalent in both population and "rateable value" ( rates being the property tax which funded local government). This meant that while electoral divisions almost always contiguous, they might bear little relation to natural community boundaries. Elections used first-past-the-post in single-member divisions and multiple non-transferable vote in those electing two (or occasionally more) guardians. The 1838 act required electoral divisions to comprise complete townlands ; an 1839 amendment empowered

540-676: The island of Ireland in the 1830s. The divisions were used as local-government electoral areas until 1919 in what is now the Republic and until 1972 in Northern Ireland. Electoral divisions originated under the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1838 as "poor law electoral divisions": electoral divisions of a poor law union (PLU) returning one or more members to the PLU's board of guardians . The boundaries of these were drawn by Poor Law Commissioners, with

567-499: The larger "district electoral areas". The reconstituted DEDs were delineated in 1923 in time for the 1924 local election . The Ulster Unionist Party used gerrymandering to ensure unionist control in areas with small nationalist population majorities. PLUs were abolished in 1948 on the introduction of the National Health Serrvice , but DEDs remained the electoral units for rural districts, and largely aligned with

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594-455: The makeup of larger units, or the location of smaller ones. There were comprehensive revisions of the DEDs in County Dublin in 1971, to facilitate redrawing electoral boundaries in growing suburbs of Dublin city , and again in 1986, when it was divided into the electoral counties of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown , Fingal , and South Dublin . Otherwise DEDs were rarely if ever changed, so that

621-433: The two-tier county and district local government model with a single-tier district model, with each of the 26 new districts divided into "district electoral divisions to be known as wards". A boundary commissioner delineating the districts and wards could disregard the old DEDs but use them for reference where convenient. The centres of the new districts of Antrim , Castlereagh and Magherafelt were defined in terms of

648-559: The valuation of each electoral division were made to Parliament in 1846, 1866, and 1901. The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 established a system of administrative counties divided into "county districts" ( urban and rural districts ) run by directly elected county councils and district councils. PLUs comprised one or more county districts, and poor law electoral divisions were renamed district electoral divisions (DEDs). Two rural district councillors were elected from each rural district DED, who were also ex officio guardians of

675-471: The wards used in urban districts. There were very few changes to DED boundaries made between 1923 and their obsolescence under the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 , except to adjust to extension of urban municipal boundaries. The 1926–1951 censuses were published down to townland level, while for those of 1961–1971, the lowest level of detail was DED or ward. The 1971 act replaced

702-423: The width of the front facade. The interior has a vestibule area with two staircases providing access to the upper level. The ground floor is divided into two spaces, with paired iron columns supporting the ceiling and upper level, which has a single large high-ceilinged chamber. The meetinghouse was built on the site of a 1731 meeting house , and was the only major civic structure on the south side of Portsmouth. It

729-490: Was built in 1866, after several years of agitation by local residents for a public meeting space in the city's southernmost ward. The building was designed by a committee appointed by the city council, and was built at a cost of $ 9,600. The building's upper level serves as a large public meeting space, and has seen use for political meetings, ward elections, and religious services. Ward (politics) The word "ward", for an electoral subdivision, appears to have originated in

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