senatorial district

American  

noun

1. one of a fixed number of districts into which a state of the U.S. is divided, each electing one member to the state senate.

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Etymology

Origin of senatorial district

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

Example Sentences

She also introduced him at a regional NAR conference of several hundred people in October 2020, in Gettysburg, which is in Mastriano's senatorial district.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2022

But her campaign might as well have been launched amid the unrest, much of which unfolded in what was then her state senatorial district.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2017

Raskin, 53, is trying to build on the grass-roots organization that’s lifted him to three election victories in his Silver Spring-Takoma Park senatorial district.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2016

Democrat Ted Kennedy Jr., son of the late Massachusetts U.S. senator, won the 12th state senatorial district along the state’s shoreline.

From Washington Times • Nov. 5, 2014

Since the counties comprising that senatorial district constituted a part of the district that I then represented in Congress, I took an active part in the support of the candidacy of Sessions.

From The Facts of Reconstruction by Lynch, John R.