single-member districts
- plural of single-member district.
Example Sentences
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Its city council, too, was forced to switch from at-large to single-member districts in 2012, and the first Latino council member was elected in 2013.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
All House candidates ran in single-member districts because of a 2018 restructuring.
From Washington Times ● May 11, 2022
The Center won some big cases early on, including a lawsuit that forced the Alabama legislature to divide into single-member districts, insuring the election of the state’s first African-American lawmakers since Reconstruction.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2019
Thereafter, all of the seats in the House were to be filled from single-member districts in each State.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
The scheme for England treated Lancashire and Yorkshire as urban throughout, and divided them into single-member districts; but the remaining 'rural' counties of England were divided into two-member districts.
From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
