[EL] Shrinking legislatures

Thu May 16 14:17:48 PDT 2019

Massachusetts shrunk its state house effective 1978, from 240 to 160.

Richard Winger 415-922-9779 PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147 

    On Thursday, May 16, 2019, 1:37:21 PM PDT, Douglas Carver <dhmcarver at gmail.com> wrote:  

 The New Mexico Legislature has varied in size since its inception, starting with 49 House members and 24 in the Senate in 1912, to the present 70 House and 42 Senate. Generally it has been a slow increase over the years, but looking at a chart of number of members by Session, the 26th Session (1963-1964) had 66 House members, the 27th (1965-1966) had 77, and the 28th (1967-1968) dropped to the now-current 70. I have not been able to find anything that documents why the numbers have varied over the years, but since the number of members is set in the state Constitution (Art. IV, Sec. 3), presumably the Constitution was amended each time the numbers changed..
Douglas CarverAlbuquerque, NM

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 1:36 PM Gaddie, Ronald K. <rkgaddie at ou.edu> wrote:

Georgia went from 205 House, 54 senate in the 1962 county-apportionment legislature, to 180 House, 56 Senate at some point before the mid 1970s. I'm tracking down the precise change date.

Keith Gaddie, Ph.D.Executive Faculty Fellow of the University of OklahomaSenior Fellow of Headington College President's Associates Presidential Professor of 
  Political Science, Journalism, & Architecture
"I would like to build a University of which the football team could be proud." ~George Lynn Cross

From: Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> on behalf of Zach West <zachwest1 at gmail.com>
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To: David Segal
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Subject: Re: [EL] Shrinking legislatures Ohio used to change the number of house and senate seats at each election.  Each county was guaranteed at least one seat, regardless of population size, and additional seats were given to counties with unusually large populations.  They usually had around ~130-140 representatives, and ~30-35 senators.  Post Reynolds v. Sims, Ohio adopted the current size of 99 state reps and 33 state senators.
Gongwer has a chart showing the size of each session.  http://www.gongwer-oh.com/public/gahis.html

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 2:57 PM David Segal <davidadamsegal at gmail.com> wrote:

We went from 100 -> 75 in the RI House and 50 -> 38 in the Senate in 2002. Constitutional amendment, put on the ballot by the legislature. 
On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 2:55 PM David O'Brien <dobrien at fairvote.org> wrote:

Nebraska shrunk the size of its legislature when it voted to switch to a unicameral system in 1934. Prior to that referendum, it had a Senate with 33 members and a House of Representatives with 100 members. Today it only has a 49-member Senate.
On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 2:42 PM Edelman, Paul <paul.edelman at law.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:

I am in search of examples of legislative bodies that have shrunk, either of their own volition or by order of some superior entity.   They seem to be as uncommon as shrinking university administrations.  Does anyone have any examples?  Thanks in advance.

Paul

Paul H. Edelman

Professor of Mathematics and Law

Vanderbilt University

paul.edelman at vanderbilt.edu

615-322-0990

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