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

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above