power base

American  

noun

1. a source of authority or influence, especially in politics, founded on support by an organized body of voters, ethnic minority, economic class, etc..

   His election as governor gives him a power base for seeking the presidency.

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Etymology

Origin of power base

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Mitsotakis vowed Sunday to fully expose the scandal, even though many of the subsidies went to Crete, which is his power base.

From Barron's

Phillipson's team argue a big voice like this outside the cabinet would create a rival power base that could destabilise what is an already shaky political operation.

From BBC

The mid-decade redistricting — following similar efforts in Texas and Missouri — would see Davids’ territory sliced up again, splitting up her power base in Johnson County.

From Salon

These lords turned Finlaggan into a power base from where they controlled the Hebrides, Argyll and parts of the north west Highlands.

From BBC

Johns made Pork Chopper politicos take a Klan-style blood oath in the 1940s to preserve the post-Reconstruction white power base of North Florida against Black integrationists who wanted social equality.

From Salon