At - large - wikipedia At - large This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( October 2012 ) At - large is a designation for members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent the whole membership of the body ( for example, a city, state or province, nation, club or association ), rather than a subset of that membership. At - large voting is in contrast to voting by electoral districts. If an at - large election is called to choose a single candidate, a single - winner voting system must necessarily be used. If a group of seats must be covered, many electoral systems can be possible, from proportional representation methods ( such as party - list proportional representation, or PR - STV ) to block voting. Contents 1 Canada 2 Israel 3 Netherlands 4 Philippines 5 United States 5.1 States with at - large congressional districts 5.2 Former at - large congressional districts 5.3 Non-voting at - large congressional districts 5.4 Former non-voting at - large congressional districts 5.5 States with both at - large seats and geographically defined districts 5.6 Local elections 6 See also 7 Further reading 8 References 9 External links Canada A number of municipalities in Canada elect part or all of their city councils at - large. Although this form of municipal election is most common in small towns due to the difficulty of dividing the municipality into wards, several larger cities use an at - large system as well : North Bay, Ontario ( all councillors at - large ) Portage la Prairie, Manitoba ( all councillors at - large ) St. Albert, Alberta ( all councillors at - large ) Thunder Bay, Ontario ( seven councillors elected to wards, five councillors elected at - large ) Timmins, Ontario ( four rural wards with one councillor each, one urban ward with four at - large councillors ) Vancouver, British Columbia ( all councillors at - large ). Most of British Columbia 's major cities, including Victoria, Surrey and Richmond use this system ( all councillors at - large ). At the federal level, Canada 's three territories, Yukon, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are each represented in the Parliament of Canada by one at - large Member of Parliament and one at - large Senator. However, all Canadian provinces, regardless of size, are divided into multiple electoral districts. Israel Main article : Elections in Israel In Israel, elections for the Knesset ( the national parliament ) are conducted on an at - large basis by proportional representation from party lists. Election of municipal and town ( but not regional ) councils is also done on an at - large basis by proportional representation from party lists. Netherlands 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 on an at - large basis by proportional representation from party lists. Philippines Main article : Elections in the Philippines In Philippine politics, `` at - large '' usually refers to the manner of election of the Senate : the voters have twelve votes, with the country acting as one at - large `` district '', the twelve candidates with the most number of votes are elected ( plurality - at - large voting ). Provinces that send only one representative to the House of Representatives are called `` lone districts ''. All local legislatures elect member via at - large districts via plurality - at - large voting. Sangguniang Kabataan ( Youth Council ), Sangguniang Barangay ( Barangay ) ( village ) Council, Sangguniang Bayan ( Municipal Councils ) and some Sangguniang Panlungsod ( City Councils ) all elect members with each local government unit acting as one at - large district. Some City Councils and all Sangguniang Panlalawigan ( Provincial Board ) members are elected with the city or province being split into as much as seven districts, then each district elects at least two members, at - large. United States Article One of the United States Constitution provides for direct election of members of the House of Representatives. A congressional act passed in 1967, 2 U.S.C. § 2c, dictates that representatives must be elected from geographical districts and that these must be single - member districts, except when the state has a single representative, in which case one at - large representative is elected from the entire state. States with at - large congressional districts Alaska Delaware Montana North Dakota South Dakota Vermont Wyoming Former at - large congressional districts Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Mississippi Missouri Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia Washington West Virginia Non-voting at - large congressional districts American Samoa American Virgin Islands District of Columbia Guam Puerto Rico Northern Mariana Islands Former non-voting at - large congressional districts 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 States with both at - large seats and geographically defined districts This is a table of every instance of at - large representation in the United States Congress when the same state had geographically defined districts as well. 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 CT ( 1 ), MD ( 1 ), MI ( 1 ), OH ( 1 ), TX ( 1 ) 89th MD ( 1 ), OH ( 1 ), TX ( 1 ) Local elections 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. 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, as well as providing more representative government. In the late 1980s, several major cities in Tennessee reached settlement in court cases to adopt single - member districts in order to enable minorities to elect candidates of their choice to city councils ; they had previously been excluded by at - large voting favoring the majority population. 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. See also General ticket Plural district United States Statutes at Large Further reading Martis, Kenneth C. ( 1982 ). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York : Macmillan Publishing Company. References Jump up ^ ABS Staff, `` Fayette County at - large election process violates the Voting Rights Act '', Atlanta Black Star, 22 May 2013, accessed 11 April 2015 Jump up ^ BUCHANAN v. CITY OF JACKSON, 683 F. Supp. 1515 ( W.D. Tenn. 1988 ), Case Text website External links U.S. House of Representatives : House History Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=At-large&oldid=802348774 '' Categories : United States congressional districts Constituencies Elections Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from October 2012 All articles needing additional references Talk Contents About Wikipedia Français 한국어 Italiano Edit links This page was last edited on 25 September 2017, at 16 : 17. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: local elections in which all candidates run for multiple seats (positions) citywide are called
Answer: At-large