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pocket borough † 
a riding which is traditionally so strong in support of a given party that the candidate running there is virtually certain of being elected.
- 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.
- 1927 He [Baldwin] had a "pocket borough", as it was called, a safe Reform seat in the fourth riding of York.