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Colorado Amendment No. 4, Districting of Senatorial and Representative Districts Initiative (1956)
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| Topic Redistricting policy and State legislatures measures |
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| Type Initiated constitutional amendment |
Origin |
Colorado Amendment No. 4 was on the ballot as an initiated constitutional amendment in Colorado on November 6, 1956. It was defeated.
A “yes” vote supported establishing procedures for creating senatorial and representative districts. |
A “no” vote opposed establishing procedures for creating senatorial and representative districts. |
Election results
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Colorado Amendment No. 4 |
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
| Yes | 158,204 | 31.18% | ||
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349,195 | 68.82% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Amendment No. 4 was as follows:
| “ | An act to amend article V of the state constitution, providing for apportionment of members of the General Assembly; provides that the membership of the senate shall be thirty-five and of the house sixty-five; requires the supreme court to divide the state into senatorial and representative districts by December 31, 1957, and following each decennial United States census thereafter; provides each senatorial district shall contain not less than two and three-fourth per cent and each representative district shall contain not less than one and one-half per cent of the state's population, each senatorial district being entitled to one senator and each representative district being entitled to one representative for each whole multiple of said population percentages; that no county shall be divided and that counties must be contiguous in the formation of a district consisting of more than one county. | ” |
Path to the ballot
In Colorado, proponents needed to collect a number of signatures for an initiated constitutional amendment.
See also
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Footnotes
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