Ballot Questions
1945
Question #4
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change III.5
as proposed by the NYS Legislature
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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69.89% |
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613,373 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
30.11% |
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264,296 New Yorkers voted No |
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877,669 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.
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III.5 proposed for 1946
Article III: Legislature • Section 5: Apportionment of assemblymen; creation of assembly districts.
The members of the assembly shall be chosen by single districts and shall be apportioned by the legislature at each regular session at which the senate districts are readjusted or altered, and by the same law, among the several counties of the state, as nearly as may be according to the number of their respective inhabitants, excluding aliens. Every county…
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