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October 19, 2023

For the selection of sports teams, see At-large bid.

At large (before a noun: at-large) is a description for members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent a whole membership or population (notably a city, county, state, province, nation, club or association), rather than a subset. In multi-hierarchical bodies, the term rarely extends to a tier beneath the highest division. A contrast is implied, with certain electoral districts or narrower divisions. It can be given to the associated territory, if any, to denote its undivided nature, in a specific context. Unambiguous synonyms are the prefixes of cross-, all- or whole-, such as cross-membership, or all-state.

The term is used as a suffix referring to specific members (such as the U.S. congressional Representative/the Member/Rep. for Wyoming at large). It figures as a generic prefix of its subject matter (such as Wyoming is an at-large U.S. congressional district, at present). It is commonly used when making or highlighting a direct contrast with subdivided equivalents that may be past or present, or seen in exotic comparators. It indicates that the described zone has no further subsets used for the same representative purpose. An exception is a nil-exceptions arrangement of overlapping tiers (resembling or being district and regional representatives, one set of which is at large) for return to the very same chamber, and consequent issue of multiple ballots for plural voting to every voter. This avoids plural voting competing with single voting in the jurisdiction, an inherent different level of democratic power.

Examples of a democratic power disparity were found in a small number of states at certain U.S. Congresses, between 1853 and 1967, and in the old lower houses of the United Kingdom and Ireland, whereby certain voters could vote for (and lobby) at-large (whole-state/County) and district(-based) representatives to them, giving zones of plural voting and thus representation contrasting with zones, for the same national assembly, of single voting and representation.[1][2] In 1964 the U.S. Supreme Court banned such plural voting for the U.S. Congress (thus banning at-large, whole-state congressional districts which overlap state subdivision congressional districts).

Universal principles apply regardless whether election(s) are for a member at large, or not.

Canada Edit

Some municipalities in Canada elect part or all of their city councils at large. The form of municipal election is widespread in small towns to avoid "them and us" cultural dissociation of dividing them into wards. It is also used in many large cities in Canada. The voting method in all at-large elections and multi-member wards today is Plurality block voting. (In the past, Single transferable voting (STV) was used in 20 Canadian municipalities, either in at-large contests or multi-member wards.) Notable larger instances are, from west to east:

The three territories (Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories) are federally served in the Parliament of Canada by one at-large Member of Parliament and Senator each. These have high apportionment but are ethnically diverse and of exceptional geographical size. Provinces are divided to make up the other 335 electoral districts (ridings or comtés). The ridings are combined into large regions to select the 102 senators, who are appointed.

Israel Edit

Main article: Elections in Israel

In Israel, elections for the Knesset (the national parliament) are conducted at large by proportional representation from party lists. Election of municipal and town (but not regional) councils are on the same basis.

Netherlands Edit

Main article: Elections in the Netherlands

In the Netherlands, elections for the House of Representatives (the lower house of the States-General, the national parliament) are conducted at large by proportional representation from party lists.

Philippines Edit

Main article: Elections in the Philippines

This manner of election applies to the Senate. All voters can cast twelve votes to refresh half of the Senate, namely twelve senators, from a longer list of candidates. The simple tally determines the winners (plurality-at-large voting).

Provinces with smaller populations elect their representative at large. Some cities that has its own congressional district also elect its representatives this way. Most other provinces and a few cities are divided into two or more districts.

Likewise, the Sangguniang Kabataan (Youth Councils), Sangguniang Barangay (Village Councils), Sangguniang Bayan (Municipal Councils) and some Sangguniang Panlungsod (City Councils) elect the other members. It follows that such true or quasi-local government units do not in the purest sense elect members at large when their geography is analysed, as each member co-exists with the others who have territorial overlap, as representing greater or lower-rank districts. The members are by law chosen by the public directly or indirectly. Members chosen by the City Council or the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (Provincial Board) are elected such that the city or province may be split into as many as seven districts, and each then elects at least two members.

United States Edit

Article One of the United States Constitution provides for direct election of members of the House of Representatives. The Uniform Congressional District Act, enacted in 1967 and codified as 2 U.S.C. § 2c, dictates that representatives must be elected from geographical districts and that these must be single-member districts. Indeed it confirms when the state has a single representative, that will be a representative at large.

U.S. House of Representatives Edit

States as at-large congressional districts Edit

Former at-large congressional districts Edit

Non-voting at-large congressional districts Edit

Former non-voting at-large congressional districts Edit

Simultaneous at-large and sub-state-size congressional districts Edit

This is a table of every such instance. It shows the situation applied to a small, varying group of states in three periods. The 33rd Congress began in 1853; it ended two years later. The 38th began in 1863; the 50th ended in 1889. The 53rd began in 1893; the 89th ended in January 1967, the final such period. This was due to the 1964 case of Reynolds v. Sims: the United States Supreme Court determined that the general basis of apportionment must be "one person, one vote."[4]

Congress State & Number of at-large seats
33rd MS (1)
38th IL (1)
39th IL (1)
40th IL (1)
41st IL (1)
42nd IL (1)
43rd AL (2), AR (1), IN (2), LA (1), NY (1), PA (3), SC (1), TN (1), TX (2)
44th AL (2)
48th AR (1), CA (2), GA (1), KS (4), NY (1), NC (1), PA (1), VA (1)
49th PA (1)
50th PA (1)
53rd IL (2), KS (1), PA (2)
54th KS (1), PA (2)
55th KS (1), PA (2)
56th KS (1), PA (2)
57th KS (1), PA (2)
58th CO (1), CT (1), KS (1)
59th CO (1), CT (1), KS (1)
60th CO (1), CT (1)
61st CO (1), CT (1)
62nd CO (1), CT (1)
63rd AL (1), CO (2), FL (1), IL (2), MI (1), MN (1), OH (1), OK (3), PA (4), TX (2), WA (2), WV (1)
64th AL (1), IL (2), PA (4), TX (2), WV (1)
65th IL (2), PA (4), TX (2)
66th IL (2), PA (4)
67th IL (2), PA (4)
68th IL (2)
69th IL (2)
70th IL (2)
71st IL (2)
72nd IL (2)
73rd CT (1), FL (1), IL (2), NY (2), OH (2), OK (1), TX (3)
74th CT (1), FL (1), IL (2), NY (2), OH (2), OK (1)
75th CT (1), IL (2), NY (2), OH (2), OK (1)
76th CT (1), IL (2), NY (2), OH (2), OK (1)
77th CT (1), IL (2), NY (2), OH (2), OK (1)
78th CT (1), FL (1), IL (1), NY (2), OH (1), PA (1)
79th CT (1), IL (1), OH (1)
80th CT (1), IL (1), OH (1)
81st CT (1), OH (1)
82nd CT (1), OH (1)
83rd CT (1), TX (1), WA (1)
84th CT (1), TX (1), WA (1)
85th CT (1), TX (1), WA (1)
86th CT (1)
87th CT (1)
88th AL (8), CT (1), MD (1), MI (1), OH (1), TX (1)
89th MD (1), OH (1), TX (1)

State elections Edit

As of 2021, ten U.S. states have at least one legislative chamber which uses multi-winner at-large districts:

In the 1980s, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, South Carolina, and Virginia all moved entirely from multi-winner districts in either chamber, followed by Alaska, Georgia, and Indiana in the 1990s.[5] After the 2010 United States redistricting cycle, Nevada eliminated their two remaining multi-member senate districts and implemented single-winner districts in both houses.[6] In 2018, West Virginia passed a law switching all remaining multi-winner House of Delegates seats to single-winner districts following the 2020 United States Census.[7]

Local elections Edit

Since passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and lessening of some historic barriers to voter registration and voting, legal challenges have been made based on at-large election schemes at the county or city level, including in school board elections, in numerous jurisdictions where minorities had been effectively excluded from representation on local councils or boards. An example is Charleston County, South Carolina, which was sued in 2001 and reached a settlement in 2004. Its county commission changed to nine members elected from single-member districts; in 2015 they included six white Republicans and three African-American Democrats, where the black minority makes up more than one-third of the population.

In another instance, in 2013 Fayette County, Georgia, which had an estimated 70% white majority and 20% black minority, was ordered by a federal district court to develop single-member districts for election of members to its county council and its school board. Due to at-large voting, African Americans had been unable to elect any candidate of their choice to either of these boards for decades.[8] Such local election systems have become subject to litigation since enabling more representative elections can create entry points for minorities and women into the political system and provide more representative government. In the late 1980s, several major cities in Tennessee reached settlement in court cases to adopt single-member districts to enable minorities to elect candidates of their choice to city councils, who had previously been excluded by at-large voting favoring the majority population.[9] By 2015, voters in two of these cities had elected women mayors who had gotten their start in being elected to the city council from single-member districts.

The town of Islip, New York was sued by four residents in 2018 for violating the Voting Rights Act by maintaining a discriminatory at-large council system. One-third of Islip's population is Hispanic, but only one person of color has ever been elected to a town seat. As part of the settlement reached in 2020, the at-large system will be abolished and replaced by four council districts by 2023.[10]

Some states have passed laws that further discourage the use of at-large districts. For example, the California Voting Rights Act removes one of the criteria required for a successful federal Voting Rights Act challenge, which has thus resulted in hundreds of cities, school districts, and special districts moving to single member area-based elections.

Some jurisdictions have kept at-large city councils and boards. The solution adopted by Cambridge, Massachusetts, is to elect council officials via proportional representation for all seats.

European Union Edit

The Conference on the Future of Europe has proposed adding "transnational lists" to the European Parliament, in which a small number of members are elected by the entire European Union at-large from Union-wide party lists.[11] This is among a number of proposed reforms to deepen European integration.

See also Edit

References Edit

  1. ^ Electoral Reform in England and Wales, by Charles Seymour (David & Charles Reprints 1970)
  2. ^ The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
  3. ^ Guide to City Services, Municipal Government, Wards. Retrieved 4 June 2007
  4. ^ Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964).
  5. ^ Lilliard E. Richardson, Jr. and Christopher A. Cooper, "The Mismeasure of MMD: Reassessing the Impact of Multi Member Districts on Descriptive Representation in U.S. State Legislatures," accessed May 27, 2015
  6. ^ National Conference of State Legislatures, "Changes in Legislatures Using Multimember Districts after Redistricting," September 11, 2012
  7. ^ "Bill Status - Complete Bill History".
  8. ^ ABS Staff, "Fayette County at-large election process violates the Voting Rights Act", Atlanta Black Star, 22 May 2013, accessed 11 April 2015
  9. ^ BUCHANAN v. CITY OF JACKSON, 683 F. Supp. 1515 (W.D. Tenn. 1988), Case Text website
  10. ^ "Latinos, advocates hail change to how Islip officials are elected". Newsday. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  11. ^ "The Conference on the Future of Europe concludes its work | News | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. 2022-09-05. Retrieved 2023-02-05.

Further reading Edit

  • Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.

External links Edit

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1 4 Former non voting at large congressional districts 5 1 5 Simultaneous at large and sub state size congressional districts 5 2 State elections 5 3 Local elections 6 European Union 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External linksCanada EditSome municipalities in Canada elect part or all of their city councils at large The form of municipal election is widespread in small towns to avoid them and us cultural dissociation of dividing them into wards It is also used in many large cities in Canada The voting method in all at large elections and multi member wards today is Plurality block voting In the past Single transferable voting STV was used in 20 Canadian municipalities either in at large contests or multi member wards Notable larger instances are from west to east The main cities of British Columbia Vancouver Victoria Surrey and Richmond all councillors at large and adopt specialist spokesman executive or committee roles St Albert Alberta and all other municipalities in Alberta except Edmonton Calgary and Wood Buffalo all councillors at large Portage la Prairie Manitoba all councillors at large North Bay Ontario all councillors at large Thunder Bay Ontario seven councillors elected in single member wards five councillors elected at large 3 Timmins Ontario four rural wards with one councillor each one urban ward with four councillors at large The three territories Yukon Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are federally served in the Parliament of Canada by one at large Member of Parliament and Senator each These have high apportionment but are ethnically diverse and of exceptional geographical size Provinces are divided to make up the other 335 electoral districts ridings or comtes The ridings are combined into large regions to select the 102 senators who are appointed Israel EditMain article Elections in Israel In Israel elections for the Knesset the national parliament are conducted at large by proportional representation from party lists Election of municipal and town but not regional councils are on the same basis Netherlands EditMain article Elections in the Netherlands In the Netherlands elections for the House of Representatives the lower house of the States General the national parliament are conducted at large by proportional representation from party lists Philippines EditMain article Elections in the Philippines This manner of election applies to the Senate All voters can cast twelve votes to refresh half of the Senate namely twelve senators from a longer list of candidates The simple tally determines the winners plurality at large voting Provinces with smaller populations elect their representative at large Some cities that has its own congressional district also elect its representatives this way Most other provinces and a few cities are divided into two or more districts Likewise the Sangguniang Kabataan Youth Councils Sangguniang Barangay Village Councils Sangguniang Bayan Municipal Councils and some Sangguniang Panlungsod City Councils elect the other members It follows that such true or quasi local government units do not in the purest sense elect members at large when their geography is analysed as each member co exists with the others who have territorial overlap as representing greater or lower rank districts The members are by law chosen by the public directly or indirectly Members chosen by the City Council or the Sangguniang Panlalawigan Provincial Board are elected such that the city or province may be split into as many as seven districts and each then elects at least two members United States EditArticle One of the United States Constitution provides for direct election of members of the House of Representatives The Uniform Congressional District Act enacted in 1967 and codified as 2 U S C 2c dictates that representatives must be elected from geographical districts and that these must be single member districts Indeed it confirms when the state has a single representative that will be a representative at large U S House of Representatives Edit States as at large congressional districts Edit Alaska Delaware North Dakota South Dakota Vermont WyomingFormer at large congressional districts Edit Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Non voting at large congressional districts Edit American Samoa American Virgin Islands District of Columbia Guam Puerto Rico Northern Mariana IslandsFormer non voting at large congressional districts Edit Alabama Territory Alaska Territory Arizona Territory Colorado Territory Dakota Territory Florida Territory Hawaii Territory Idaho Territory Illinois Territory Indiana Territory Iowa Territory Kansas Territory Mississippi Territory Missouri Territory Montana Territory Nevada Territory New Mexico Territory Northwest Territory Oklahoma Territory Oregon Territory Orleans Territory Philippines Southwest Territory Utah Territory Washington Territory Wisconsin Territory Wyoming Territory Simultaneous at large and sub state size congressional districts Edit This is a table of every such instance It shows the situation applied to a small varying group of states in three periods The 33rd Congress began in 1853 it ended two years later The 38th began in 1863 the 50th ended in 1889 The 53rd began in 1893 the 89th ended in January 1967 the final such period This was due to the 1964 case of Reynolds v Sims the United States Supreme Court determined that the general basis of apportionment must be one person one vote 4 Congress State amp Number of at large seats33rd MS 1 38th IL 1 39th IL 1 40th IL 1 41st IL 1 42nd IL 1 43rd AL 2 AR 1 IN 2 LA 1 NY 1 PA 3 SC 1 TN 1 TX 2 44th AL 2 48th AR 1 CA 2 GA 1 KS 4 NY 1 NC 1 PA 1 VA 1 49th PA 1 50th PA 1 53rd IL 2 KS 1 PA 2 54th KS 1 PA 2 55th KS 1 PA 2 56th KS 1 PA 2 57th KS 1 PA 2 58th CO 1 CT 1 KS 1 59th CO 1 CT 1 KS 1 60th CO 1 CT 1 61st CO 1 CT 1 62nd CO 1 CT 1 63rd AL 1 CO 2 FL 1 IL 2 MI 1 MN 1 OH 1 OK 3 PA 4 TX 2 WA 2 WV 1 64th AL 1 IL 2 PA 4 TX 2 WV 1 65th IL 2 PA 4 TX 2 66th IL 2 PA 4 67th IL 2 PA 4 68th IL 2 69th IL 2 70th IL 2 71st IL 2 72nd IL 2 73rd CT 1 FL 1 IL 2 NY 2 OH 2 OK 1 TX 3 74th CT 1 FL 1 IL 2 NY 2 OH 2 OK 1 75th CT 1 IL 2 NY 2 OH 2 OK 1 76th CT 1 IL 2 NY 2 OH 2 OK 1 77th CT 1 IL 2 NY 2 OH 2 OK 1 78th CT 1 FL 1 IL 1 NY 2 OH 1 PA 1 79th CT 1 IL 1 OH 1 80th CT 1 IL 1 OH 1 81st CT 1 OH 1 82nd CT 1 OH 1 83rd CT 1 TX 1 WA 1 84th CT 1 TX 1 WA 1 85th CT 1 TX 1 WA 1 86th CT 1 87th CT 1 88th AL 8 CT 1 MD 1 MI 1 OH 1 TX 1 89th MD 1 OH 1 TX 1 State elections Edit As of 2021 ten U S states have at least one legislative chamber which uses multi winner at large districts Arizona House of Representatives for all representatives in all sessions New Jersey General Assembly for all representatives in all sessions South Dakota House of Representatives for all representatives in all sessions Washington House of Representatives for all representatives in all sessions Maryland House of Delegates allowed by law even when not used Idaho House of Representatives allowed by law even when not used North Dakota House of Representatives allowed by law even when not used Vermont Senate and Vermont House of Representatives allowed by law even when not used West Virginia Senate and West Virginia House of Delegates allowed by law even when not used will switch to all single winner districts for both chambers in 2022 New Hampshire House of Representatives allowed by law even when not used uses floterial districts which can geographically overlap each other In the 1980s Florida Hawaii Illinois South Carolina and Virginia all moved entirely from multi winner districts in either chamber followed by Alaska Georgia and Indiana in the 1990s 5 After the 2010 United States redistricting cycle Nevada eliminated their two remaining multi member senate districts and implemented single winner districts in both houses 6 In 2018 West Virginia passed a law switching all remaining multi winner House of Delegates seats to single winner districts following the 2020 United States Census 7 Local elections Edit Since passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and lessening of some historic barriers to voter registration and voting legal challenges have been made based on at large election schemes at the county or city level including in school board elections in numerous jurisdictions where minorities had been effectively excluded from representation on local councils or boards An example is Charleston County South Carolina which was sued in 2001 and reached a settlement in 2004 Its county commission changed to nine members elected from single member districts in 2015 they included six white Republicans and three African American Democrats where the black minority makes up more than one third of the population In another instance in 2013 Fayette County Georgia which had an estimated 70 white majority and 20 black minority was ordered by a federal district court to develop single member districts for election of members to its county council and its school board Due to at large voting African Americans had been unable to elect any candidate of their choice to either of these boards for decades 8 Such local election systems have become subject to litigation since enabling more representative elections can create entry points for minorities and women into the political system and provide more representative government In the late 1980s several major cities in Tennessee reached settlement in court cases to adopt single member districts to enable minorities to elect candidates of their choice to city councils who had previously been excluded by at large voting favoring the majority population 9 By 2015 voters in two of these cities had elected women mayors who had gotten their start in being elected to the city council from single member districts The town of Islip New York was sued by four residents in 2018 for violating the Voting Rights Act by maintaining a discriminatory at large council system One third of Islip s population is Hispanic but only one person of color has ever been elected to a town seat As part of the settlement reached in 2020 the at large system will be abolished and replaced by four council districts by 2023 10 Some states have passed laws that further discourage the use of at large districts For example the California Voting Rights Act removes one of the criteria required for a successful federal Voting Rights Act challenge which has thus resulted in hundreds of cities school districts and special districts moving to single member area based elections Some jurisdictions have kept at large city councils and boards The solution adopted by Cambridge Massachusetts is to elect council officials via proportional representation for all seats European Union EditThe Conference on the Future of Europe has proposed adding transnational lists to the European Parliament in which a small number of members are elected by the entire European Union at large from Union wide party lists 11 This is among a number of proposed reforms to deepen European integration See also EditGeneral ticket Plural district United States Statutes at LargeReferences Edit Electoral Reform in England and Wales by Charles Seymour David amp Charles Reprints 1970 The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith 1st edition published in three volumes 1844 50 second edition edited in one volume by F W S Craig Political Reference Publications 1973 Guide to City Services Municipal Government Wards Retrieved 4 June 2007 Reynolds v Sims 377 U S 533 1964 Lilliard E Richardson Jr and Christopher A Cooper The Mismeasure of MMD Reassessing the Impact of Multi Member Districts on Descriptive Representation in U S State Legislatures accessed May 27 2015 National Conference of State Legislatures Changes in Legislatures Using Multimember Districts after Redistricting September 11 2012 Bill Status Complete Bill History ABS Staff Fayette County at large election process violates the Voting Rights Act Atlanta Black Star 22 May 2013 accessed 11 April 2015 BUCHANAN v CITY OF JACKSON 683 F Supp 1515 W D Tenn 1988 Case Text website Latinos advocates hail change to how Islip officials are elected Newsday Retrieved 2020 10 15 The Conference on the Future of Europe concludes its work News European Parliament www europarl europa eu 2022 09 05 Retrieved 2023 02 05 Further reading EditMartis Kenneth C 1982 The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts New York Macmillan Publishing Company External links EditU S House of Representatives House History Congressman at Large New International Encyclopedia 1905 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w 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