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54:). It figures as a generic prefix of its subject matter (such as Wyoming is an at-large U.S. congressional district, at present). It is commonly used when making or highlighting a direct contrast with subdivided equivalents that may be past or present, or seen in exotic comparators. It indicates that the described zone has no further 1561:
for election of members to its county council and its school board. Due to at-large voting, African Americans had been unable to elect any candidate of their choice to either of these boards for decades. Such local election systems have become subject to litigation since enabling more representative
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and lessening of some historic barriers to voter registration and voting, legal challenges have been made based on at-large election schemes at the county or city level, including in school board elections, in numerous jurisdictions where minorities had been effectively excluded from representation
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This is a table of every such instance. It shows the situation applied to a small, varying group of states in three periods. The 33rd Congress began in 1853; it ended two years later. The 38th began in 1863; the 50th ended in 1889. The 53rd began in 1893; the 89th ended in January 1967, the final
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do not in the purest sense elect members at large when their geography is analysed, as each member co-exists with the others who have territorial overlap, as representing greater or lower-rank districts. The members are by law chosen by the public directly or indirectly. Members chosen by the City
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was sued by four residents in 2018 for violating the Voting Rights Act by maintaining a discriminatory at-large council system. One-third of Islip's population is Hispanic, but only one person of color has ever been elected to a town seat. As part of the settlement reached in 2020, the at-large
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to enable minorities to elect candidates of their choice to city councils, who had previously been excluded by at-large voting favoring the majority population. By 2015, voters in two of these cities had elected women mayors who had gotten their start in being elected to the city council from
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and thus representation contrasting with zones, for the same national assembly, of single voting and representation. In 1964 the U.S. Supreme Court banned such plural voting for the U.S. Congress (thus banning at-large, whole-state congressional districts which overlap state subdivision
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or appointed to represent a whole membership or population (notably a city, county, state, province, nation, club or association), rather than a subset. In multi-hierarchical bodies, the term rarely extends to a tier beneath the highest division. A contrast is implied, with certain
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or narrower divisions. It can be given to the associated territory, if any, to denote its undivided nature, in a specific context. Unambiguous synonyms are the prefixes of cross-, all- or whole-, such as cross-membership, or all-state.
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elections can create entry points for minorities and women into the political system and provide more representative government. In the late 1980s, several major cities in Tennessee reached settlement in court cases to adopt
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removes one of the criteria required for a successful federal Voting Rights Act challenge, which has thus resulted in hundreds of cities, school districts, and special districts moving to single member area-based elections.
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and their representatives thus being seen to represent only a specific part of the city. It is also used in many large cities in Canada. The voting method in all such elections and multi-member wards today is
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Lilliard E. Richardson, Jr. and Christopher A. Cooper, "The Mismeasure of MMD: Reassessing the Impact of Multi Member Districts on Descriptive Representation in U.S. State Legislatures," accessed May 27,
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In the 1980s, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, South Carolina, and Virginia all moved entirely from multi-winner districts in either chamber, followed by Alaska, Georgia, and Indiana in the 1990s. After the
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used for the same representative purpose. An exception is a nil-exceptions arrangement of overlapping tiers (resembling or being district and regional representatives, one set of which is
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by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
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Examples of a democratic power disparity were found in a small number of states at certain U.S. Congresses, between 1853 and 1967, and in the old
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National Conference of State Legislatures, "Changes in Legislatures Using Multimember Districts after Redistricting," September 11, 2012
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The term is used as a suffix referring to specific members (such as the U.S. congressional Representative/the Member/Rep. for Wyoming
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Five territorial governments in the United States elect some or all of their members at large or in multi-member districts:
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to every voter. This avoids plural voting competing with single voting in the jurisdiction, an inherent different level of
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also elect its representatives this way. Most other provinces and a few cities are divided into two or more districts.
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but are ethnically diverse and of exceptional geographical size. Provinces are divided to make up the other 335
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As of 2021, ten U.S. states have at least one legislative chamber which uses multi-winner at-large districts:
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Some states have passed laws that further discourage the use of at-large districts. For example, the
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Provinces with smaller populations elect their representative at large. Some cities that has its own
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from party lists. Election of municipal and town (but not regional) councils are on the same basis.
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each. These are so sparsely populated that even one member each is over-representation. They have
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a panel/slate/group of seats/positions/representatives: involves another system. It is usually
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Universal principles apply regardless whether election(s) are for a member at large, or not.
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are elected at large through an open partisan primary and a subsequent island-wide election.
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at large from Union-wide party lists. This is among a number of proposed reforms to deepen
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Some jurisdictions have kept at-large city councils and boards. The solution adopted by
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ABS Staff, "Fayette County at-large election process violates the Voting Rights Act"
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a single seat/position/representative: entails a single-winner voting system, often
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is elected at large by the territory, but must be a resident of the island of
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Guide to City Services, Municipal Government, Wards. Retrieved 4 June 2007
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system will be abolished and replaced by four council districts by 2023.
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AL (2), AR (1), IN (2), LA (1), NY (1), PA (3), SC (1), TN (1), TX (2)
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has a single representative, that will be a representative at large.
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Municipal election at large is widespread in small towns to avoid "
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Simultaneous at-large and sub-state-size congressional districts
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Single non-transferable vote (basic single-choice, multi-member)
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AR (1), CA (2), GA (1), KS (4), NY (1), NC (1), PA (1), VA (1)
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The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts
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determined that the general basis of apportionment must be "
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at large. In most, the mayor is elected at large as well.
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Index

At-large bid
elected
electoral districts
subsets
plural voting
democratic power
lower houses
United Kingdom
Ireland
plural voting
Plurality
First-past-the-post
proportional representation
party-list
party-list
mixed-member
parallel voting
STV
Single non-transferable vote (basic single-choice, multi-member)
block (basic multi-choice, multi-member) voting
municipalities
Canada
city councils
them and us
wards
plurality block voting
single transferable voting
Vancouver
Victoria
Surrey

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