How to Use single-member district in a Sentence

single-member district

noun
  • Cities and counties were forced to redraw maps into single-member districts.
    — ABC News, 2 May 2026
  • Cities and counties were forced to redraw maps into single-member districts.
    — Leah Willingham, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
  • Hialeah does not use single-member districts; all council members are elected citywide.
    — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Most states also use this single-member district system to elect members of their state legislatures.
    — Jennifer Lynn McCoy, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The winner-takes-all system (single-member districts, plurality wins) naturally rewards concentration and punishes dispersion.
    — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Congress did not exercise its power to nationalize election procedures until the Apportionment Act of 1842, which required all congressional elections to take place in contiguous, single-member districts rather than at-large elections.
    — Jeffrey Rosen, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Congress would have to amend the 1967 Uniform Congressional District Act and repeal the requirement that requires states to use single-member districts for congressional apportionment, Drutman explained.
    — Mary Ellen Klas, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
  • Congress would have to amend the 1967 Uniform Congressional District Act and repeal the requirement that requires states to use single-member districts for congressional apportionment, Drutman explained.
    — Mary Ellen Klas, Boston Herald, 1 June 2026
  • But Congress would need to repeal a 1967 law that mandates single-member districts, written to help implement the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Southern states that had used a bloc system to disenfranchise Black voters.
    — Jennifer Lynn McCoy, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Requiring single-member districts increased the opportunities for state legislatures to engage in partisan gerrymandering and prevented states from adopting alternative voting systems that were less vulnerable to partisan manipulation, such as proportional representation.
    — Jeffrey Rosen, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2026
  • My record includes bringing major sports franchises like the Heat, Marlins and Panthers; building police substations; crafting the SMART Plan; winning single-member district reforms; and funding after-school programs with private dollars.
    — Miami Herald Staff, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2025

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