Plural district

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A plural district or multi-member district refers to an electoral district in the United States of America which can send multiple individuals to represent the same district. Currently, these districts exist only at the level of state and local governments. Such districts existed during multiple periods in the United States House of Representatives, with multiple prohibitions and allowances being enacted throughout history. The first federal (national) ban on multi-member districts for the House was by the 1842 Apportionment Bill. Currently, multi-member districts for the House are banned by the Uniform Congressional District Act. States which used multi-member districts to elect multiple members to the House did so from some of their geographically defined districts. They did so on a single ballot (block voting) or on separate concurrent ballots for each seat (conducting multiple plurality elections).

Multi-member districts give more populous counties or established Congressional Districts fair representation without redistricting (specifically, dividing them). Multi-member districts exist in other countries and bodies.