DCHP-3

pocket borough†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a riding which is traditionally so strong in support of a given party that the candidate running there is virtually certain of being elected.

Quotations

1927
He [Baldwin] had a "pocket borough", as it was called, a safe Reform seat in the fourth riding of York.
1953
Then, in the conscious rectitude of one with the power and wealth of the Hudson's Bay Company behind him, sitting himself in a pocket-borough, he indulged in a few homilies concerning political morality.
1963
When McKenzie King was defeated in Prince Albert they found a "pocket-borough" for him in Glengarry.