A city that wishes to use districts in electing council members has a choice between types of districts. What are the choices?

The statute sets out three kinds of districts – voting districts, residence districts, and what might be called blended districts. In all three sorts of districts, a candidate who represents a district must reside in that district. What differs is the persons permitted to vote in a district's elections.

In voting districts the only people who vote in district elections are voters who reside in the district.

In residence districts all the city's voters vote in all district elections.

Blended districts are permitted only in cities using the nonpartisan primary method of election (see Question 12). In such a city, only district residents vote in a primary held for a district seat, but all the city's voters vote for district seats in the general election.