Plural district
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In the United States, multi-member districts are typically called plural districts. Currently, these districts exist only in state and local governments, being prohibited at the national level by the Uniform Congressional District Act (UCDA).
Multi-member districts were used at different times to elect the United States House of Representatives, with alternating prohibitions and allowances enacted in history. The first federal (national) ban on multi-member districts for the House was by the 1842 Apportionment Bill. Multi-member districts that were used to elect members to the House reflected geographically-defined districts. Multiple members were elected using a contest where each voter had as many votes as seats being filled (block voting) or using distinct ballots, in a separate contest for each seat (conducting simultaneous but separate single-winner contests in the same district using first-past-the-post voting). Occasionally the general ticket election system was used.