multimember district

noun

variants or multi-member district or less commonly multimember constituency or multi-member constituency

: an electoral district or constituency having two or more representatives in a legislative body rather than one

In a single-member district that's split 60-40 along party lines, the 40 percent minority gets no representative. … But in a multi-member district, the 40 percent gets a share of the seats.

—Theo Anderson

compare single-member district

Examples of multimember district in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Other reformers have suggested ending the single-member, winner-take-all system of sending representatives to Congress and switching to multimember districts, with the seats allotted according to the percentage of the vote each party receives. —Julia Azari, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019

Many activists have lobbied for an even higher number, or multimember districts like those recently approved in Portland, Ore. —Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 17 June 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above