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After Reconstruction several decades later, states were electing their representatives through single-member districts.

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2025

In 1967, Congress used it to require that states use single-member districts.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2023

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

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