Alabama State Legislators, Amendment 1 (August 1956)

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The Alabama State Legislators, Amendment 1, also known as Amendment 1, was on the ballot in Alabama on November 6, 1956, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed that a senator would be elected by the qualified electors of every county in this state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1958, and in every fourth year thereafter. The terms of office of such senators would commence on the day after the general election at which they are elected, and expire on the day after the general election held in the fourth year after their election, except as otherwise provided in this constitution.

The provisions of Section 50, Section 197, Section 198, Section 199, Section 200, Section 202, Section 203 and Section 284 of this constitution in conflict herewith are hereby superseded and repealed. It would be the duty of the legislature at its first session after the taking of the decennial census of the United States in the year 1960 and after each subsequent decennial census, to fix by law the number of representatives and apportion them among the several counties of the state according to the number of inhabitants in them respectively; provided that each county would be entitled to have at least one representative.

Until such a re-classification of the House of Representatives is made as provided above the counties of Autauga, Bibb, Cherokee, Choctaw, Clay, Cleburne, Conecuh, Coosa, Crenshaw, Dale, Fayette, Greene, Lamar, Pickens, Randolph, Washington and Winston would each have one representative; the counties of Baldwin, Barbour, Blount, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Chilton, Clarke, Coffee, Colbert, Covington, Cullman, DeKalb, Elmore, Escambia, Franklin, Geneva, Hale, Henry, Houston, Jackson, Lawrence, Lee, Limestone, Lowndes, Macon, Marengo, Marion, Marwould, Monroe, Perry, Pike, Russell, Shelby, St. Clair, Sumter, Tallapoosa and Wilcox would each have two representatives; the counties of Dallas, Lauderdale, Madison, Morgan, Talladega and Walker would each have three representatives; the counties of Calhoun, Etowah and Tuscaloosa would each have four representatives; the county of Montgomery would have six representatives; the county of Mobile would have nine representatives; and the county of Jefferson would have fourteen representatives."

Election results

Alabama Amendment 1 (1956)
Result		Votes	Percentage
d No		229,188	63.49%
Yes		131,797	36.51%

Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1959

See also

Suggest a link

• Alabama 1956 ballot measures
• 1956 ballot measures
• List of Alabama ballot measures
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Alabama

External links

• Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1959