The House of Representatives shall consist of one hundred members and each county existing at the time of any apportionment shall have at least one representative; the remaining members shall be equally distributed (as nearly as practicable) among the more populous counties of the State, in accordance with a ratio to be determined by the population of said counties as shown by the Federal census next preceding any apportionment hereunder. [As amended by Const. Amends. 23 and 45.]
Publisher's Notes. The provision of this section requiring a representative from each county was held unconstitutional, under the U.S. Constitution, in Yancey v. Faubus, 238 F. Supp. 290 (E.D. Ark. 1965), and Wells v. White, 274 Ark. 197, 623 S.W.2d 187 (1981), cert. denied, 456 U.S. 906, 102 S. Ct. 1753, 72 L. Ed. 2d 163 (1982).
Ark. Const. Amend. 45 made no change in the language of this section.