SECTION II
1. The Senate shall be composed of forty senators apportioned among
Senate districts as nearly as may be according to the number of their
inhabitants as reported in the last preceding decennial census of the United
States and according to the method of equal proportions. Each Senate district
shall be composed, wherever practicable, of one single county, and, if not so
practicable, of two or more contiguous whole counties.
2. Each senator shall be elected by the legally qualified voters of the
Senate district, except that if the Senate district is composed of two or more
counties and two senators are apportioned to the district, one senator shall be
elected by the legally qualified voters of each Assembly district. Each senator
shall be elected for a term beginning at noon of the second Tuesday in January
next following his election and ending at noon of the second Tuesday in January
four years thereafter, except that each senator, to be elected for a term
beginning in January of the second year following the year in which a decennial
census of the United States is taken, shall be elected for a term of two years.
3. The General Assembly shall be composed of eighty members. Each Senate
district to which only one senator is apportioned shall constitute an Assembly
district. Each of the remaining Senate districts shall be divided into Assembly
districts equal in number to the number of senators apportioned to the Senate
district. The Assembly districts shall be composed of contiguous territory, as
nearly compact and equal in the number of their inhabitants as possible, and in
no event shall each such district contain less than eighty per cent nor more
than one hundred twenty per cent of one-fortieth of the total number of
inhabitants of the State as reported in the last preceding decennial census of
the United States. Unless necessary to meet the foregoing requirements, no
county or municipality shall be divided among Assembly districts unless it
shall contain more than one-fortieth of the total number of inhabitants of the
State, and no county or municipality shall be divided among a number of
Assembly districts larger than one plus the whole number obtained by dividing
the number of inhabitants in the county or municipality by one-fortieth of the
total number of inhabitants of the State.
4. Two members of the General Assembly shall be elected by the legally
qualified voters of each Assembly district for terms beginning at noon of the
second Tuesday in January next following their election and ending at noon of
the second Tuesday in January two years thereafter.
Article IV, Section II, paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4 amended effective December
8, 1966.
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