single-member district
noun
sin·gle-mem·ber district
ˈsiŋ-gəl-ˈmem-bər-
variants
or less commonly single-member constituency
: an electoral district or constituency having a single representative in a legislative body rather than two or more
In its first case declaring multimember districts unconstitutional in 1973, the Supreme Court declared that the Texas system of electing state representatives from county multimember districts, rather than single-member districts, discriminated against African-Americans and Latinos.—Al Kauffman
compare multimember district
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