Proposition Summary

Initiative measure. Amends Constitution, Article IV, Section 6. For choosing legislators requires Legislature, immediately following each Federal census, and next Legislature using 1920 census, to divide State into forty senatorial and eighty assembly districts, comprising contiguous territory, with assembly districts as equal in population as possible, no county or city and county containing more than one senatorial district, and no senatorial district comprising more than three counties of small population; creates Reapportionment Commission, comprising Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Surveyor General, Secretary of State, and State Superintendent of Public Instruction, to make apportionment if Legislature fails to act.

Proposition Number

28

Year

1926

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Pass

Popular Vote Results

Y: 437003; A: 54.6; N: 363208; B: 45.4

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Initiative

Code Sections Affected

Amended Cal. Const. art. IV, section 6.

For Author

David P. Barrows

Against Author

Dana R. Weller

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