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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 PR-STV) to block voting. ==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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「At-large」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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