Ohio Apportionment of the General Assembly, Amendment 1 (1893)

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The Ohio Apportionment of the General Assembly Amendment, also known as Amendment 1, was on the November 7, 1893 ballot in Ohio as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment, where it was defeated. The measure would have provided for the apportionment of the general assembly into single districts every ten years.

Election results

Ohio Amendment 1 (1893)
Result		Votes	Percentage
d No		81,481	20.15%
Yes		322,887	79.85%

Note: Although this measure gathered more "yes" votes, a majority of the total 835,604 votes in the entire election (417,803 votes) were needed for the measure to be approved.

Election results via: Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library

Text of measure

The text of the measure can be read here.

Path to the ballot

The amendment was referred to the ballot by the Ohio General Assembly on April 22, 1893.

See also

Suggest a link

• Ohio 1893 ballot measures
• 1893 ballot measures
• List of Ohio ballot measures
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Ohio

External links

• Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library

Footnotes

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