Provisions
III.2 proposed for 1870 • Senate, how constituted; Senate districts.
REJECTED
The Text
The State shall be divided into thirty-two senate districts, each of which shall choose one senator ; and the term of office shall be four years.
The senate districts shall be as follows:
First District—The counties of Suffolk, Queens and Richmond.
Second District—The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth wards of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings.
Third District— The Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Twelfth, Fourteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth wards of the city of Brooklyn, and the towns of Flatbush, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Lots and New Utrecht of the county of Kings.
Fourth District—The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Thirteenth and Fourteenth wards of the city and county of New York.
Fifth District—The Eighth, Ninth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth wards of the city and county of New York.
Sixth District—The Tenth, Eleventh and Seventeenth wards of the city and county of New York.
Seventh District—The Eighteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-first wards of the city and county of New York.
Eighth District—The Twelfth, Nineteenth and Twenty-second wards of the city and county of New York.
Ninth District—The counties of Westchester, Putnam and Rockland.
Tenth District—The counties of Orange and Sullivan.
Eleventh District—The counties of Dutchess and Columbia.
Twelfth District—The counties of Rensselaer and Washington.
Thirteenth District—The county of Albany.
Fourteenth District—The counties of Greene and Ulster.
Fifteenth District—The counties of Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Hamilton and Schenectady.
Sixteenth District—The counties of Warren, Essex and Clinton.
Seventeenth District—The counties of St. Lawrence and Franklin.
Eighteenth District—The counties of Jefferson and Lewis.
Nineteenth District—The county of Oneida.
Twentieth District —The counties of Herkimer and Otsego.
Twenty-first District—The counties of Oswego and Madison.
Twenty-second District—The counties of Onondaga and Cortland.
Twenty-third District—The counties of Chenango, Delaware and Schoharie.
Twenty-fourth District—The counties of Broome, Tioga and Tompkins.
Twenty-fifth District—The counties of Cayuga and Wayne.
Twenty-sixth District—The counties of Ontario, Yates and Seneca.
Twenty-seventh District— The counties of Chemung, Schuyler and Steuben.
Twenty-eighth District—The county of Monroe.
Twenty-ninth District—The counties of Niagara, Orleans and Genesee.
Thirtieth District—The counties of -Wyoming, Livingston and Allegany.
Thirty-first District—The county of Erie.
Thirty-second District—The counties of Chautauque and Cattaraugus.
The senators first elected under this constitution, in districts bearing odd numbers, shall vacate their office at the end of two years, and those elected in districts bearing even numbers, at the end of four years ; and vacancies occurring by the expiration of term shall be filled by the election of senators for the full term.
A Few Facts
• Has 381 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1869
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1870
• Been in Article III:
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1847-III.2
◦ 1847-III.3
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