Sentence examples for geographic district from inspiring English sources

Prop 3 would create 10 geographic district seats along with the citywide mayor.

Nearly all the towns are governed by at-large representatives, rather than by representatives of a specific geographic district.

Those 49percentt wasted votes do not amount to "consent of the governed". Today's harmful winner-take-all dynamic comes rather from the fact of single-member districts — i.e., one representative per geographic district.

In contrast, where the electorate is composed of several minorities, none of which can hope to obtain a majority, or perhaps not even a plurality sufficiently large to obtain representation, the geographic district can be regarded only as an administrative unit for counting votes.

The members of the commission are mostly elected by the state's avocado ranchers by geographic district.

Latinos have also led campaigns in several Central Valley towns, including Visalia, to change elections from at-large balloting to voting by geographic district – a model that tends to favor minorities.

He pushed through legislation that abolished geographic districts in parliamentary elections and did away with elections for regional governors.

Separately, the bureau also initiated 1,819 assessments during the period to identify any possible threats within particular geographic districts.

Civic groups in the Town of Brookhaven that campaigned successfully for election of town board members in geographic districts were making plans last week for a large victory celebration.

Detroit's charter was amended to elect city council members from geographic districts rather than a citywide pool, a change that should make politicians more accountable to neighbourhoods.

The oldest such model, Britain's Westminster system of single-member geographic districts, has proved even less popular than the American (or any other) presidential system.