single-member district

noun

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

Word History

First Known Use

1874, in the meaning defined above