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Oregon Measure Nos. 348-349, Top Sixty Candidates Legislative Elections Initiative (1914)
| Oregon Measure Nos. 348-349 | |
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| Topic Elections and campaigns and Proportional representation |
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| Type Initiated constitutional amendment |
Origin |
Oregon Measure Nos. 348-349 was on the ballot as an initiated constitutional amendment in Oregon on November 3, 1914. It was defeated.
A "yes" vote supported this ballot initiative to:
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A "no" vote opposed this ballot initiative to provide that each voter can vote for one candidate in state legislative elections and that the 60 legislative candidates who receive the most votes from across the state are elected. |
Election results
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Oregon Measure Nos. 348-349 |
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
| Yes | 39,740 | 22.47% | ||
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137,116 | 77.53% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Measure Nos. 348-349 was as follows:
| “ | Initiated by the following officers of the Oregon State Federation of Labor: T. H. Burchard, President, Portland, Oregon, E. J. Stack, Secretary, Portland, Oregon, Phillip R. Pollock, Executive Committee, Portland, Oregon, H. M. Lornsten, Executive Committee, Astoria, Oregon; and the following officers of Farmers' Union: T. A. Logsdon, Vice-President, Corvallis, Oregon, A. R. Shumway, Legislative Committee, Milton, Oregon, F. A. Sikes, Secretary-Treasurer, Milton, Oregon; and the following officers of the Farmers' Society of Equity: W. Grisenthwaite, State President, R. F. D., Oregon City, Oregon, F. G. Buchanan, State Secretary, Oregon City, Oregon; and the following officers of the Proportional Representation Bureau: W. J. Smith, President, Portland, Oregon, Nettie Mae Rankin, SecretaryTreasurer, Portland, Oregon; and the following officers of the People's Power League: C. E. S. Wood, President, Portland, Oregon, Geo. M. Orton, Vice-President, Portland, Oregon, B. Lee Paget, Treasurer, Portland, Oregon, W. S. U'Ren, Secretary, Oregon City, Oregon; and the following officers of Oregon State Grange: C. E. Spence, Worthy Master, Carus, Oregon, C. L. Shaw, Executive Committee, Albany, Oregon, B. G. Leedy, Executive Committee, Corvallis, Oregon, E. A. Bond, Legislative Committee, Creswell, Oregon, C. D. Huffman, Legislative Committee, La Grande, Oregon. - PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION AMENDMENT TO OREGON CONSTITUTION - To provide a method by which proportional representation in the Legislative Assembly of Oregon may be secured for all political parties and other voting organizations, in accordance with the number of votes controlled by each political party or voting organization respectively; by amending the Constitution of Oregon, by adding to Section 16 of Article II thereof a new Section numbered 16a, prescribing that Representatives shall be elected at large and not by districts; that each voter may vote for only one candidate for Representative and that the sixty candidates receiving the highest, number of votes shall be elected. | ” |
Full Text
The full text of this measure is available here.
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article II, Oregon Constitution
Measure Nos. 348-349 would have added a Section 16a to Article II of the Oregon Constitution. The following underlined language would have been added:[1]
Note: Hover over the text and scroll to see the full text.
Section 16a. Every legal voter may vote for any one candidate in the State for representative in the Legislative Assembly and no more. The voter may write or stick on the ballot the name of the candidate he or she votes for when it is not printed on the ballot. The sixty candidates who receive the highest number of votes throughout the State shall be thereby elected.
A candidate’s name shall be printed on the official ballot only in the district in which he or she resides. Every candidate nominated for representative may have not more than twenty words printed with his or her name on the official ballot giving the name of the industrial, commercial or political organization or party by which the candidate is nominated, and his or her pledges to the people.
The votes for the election of representative in the Legislative Assembly shall be counted, canvassed and returned, and certificates of election issued, in like manner as heretofore in the election of joint representatives from districts of two or more counties.
All provisions of the Constitution and laws of Oregon in conflict herewith are hereby abrogated and repealed in so far as they conflict with this section. This section is in all respects self executing.[2]
Path to the ballot
The number of signatures required for an initiated constitutional amendment was equal to 8% of the total votes cast in the last Supreme Court justice election.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Oregon State Library, "1914 Voter Pamphlet," accessed July 6, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source.
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