It is a technique that a state may be authorized to use to achieve more equal apportionment by population during redistricting.
[2] New Hampshire's Rockingham District 32 is a floterial district comprising Brentwood, Danville, and Fremont, whose voters jointly elect one representative; each of these towns separately elects one other representative of Rockingham 6, 8, and 7, respectively.
For example, a small town paired with a large city in a floterial district would be unlikely ever to control that House seat.
Finding that none of the plans submitted to it correctly used figures from the 2000 census and that all of them had political components, the court redistricted the state into 88 districts, none of them floterial, and all but five electing multiple representatives.
[6] Legislators and voters were dissatisfied that the larger districts in the court's plan valued numerical equality over more local representation.