How to Use single-member district in a Sentence

single-member district

noun
  • What does the community think about the need for single-member districts?
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 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
  • In addition to the survey, board trustees also hosted a series of town hall meetings last week to solicit public feedback on single-member districts.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026
  • In that climate, Newsom couldn’t justify spending money to draw up single-member districts and deal with the lawsuits that would likely accompany such a change.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026
  • On that last point, Taylor said he had been retained by a group of district residents to file a lawsuit that would seek to invalidate any move to single-member districts should the board choose to make that change.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026
  • In the Lewisville case, for example, the school district moved from an at-large system to a single-member district system to address allegations of minority vote dilution.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Under the single-member district system, the school district is divided into smaller voting districts from which candidates are elected to represent their direct constituents.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Trustee Benita Reed, who read Cannon’s remarks, urged her fellow trustees to listen to those in the community before making a decision on single-member districts.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Houston attorney Andy Taylor, who specializes in redistricting, addressed the board, briefly describing the process of creating single-member districts.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026
  • In those cases, the transition to single-member districts was initiated by legal challenges alleging voter discrimination, with plaintiffs saying the racial makeup of the boards didn’t reflect the racial makeup of district students.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The conversation about single-member districts in Mansfield began in earnest after trustees passed a resolution in August to explore the possibility of transitioning away from at-large voting.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The winner-takes-all system (single-member districts, plurality wins) naturally rewards concentration and punishes dispersion.
    — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Under a single-member district system, Mansfield would be divided into smaller voting districts, with voters selecting from candidates who represent specific geographic areas.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026
  • 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, 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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