§ 1. Board of apportionment created - Powers and duties.
§ 2. One hundred members in House of Representatives - Apportionment.
§ 3. Senatorial districts - Thirty-five members of Senate.
§ 4. Duties of Board of Apportionment.
§ 5. Mandamus to compel Board of Apportionment to act.
§ 6. Election of Senators and Representatives.
Publisher's Notes. Ark. Const. Amend. 23 rewrote this article. Prior to its amendment, the article read:
"Section 1. The House of Representatives shall consist of not less than seventy-three, nor more than one hundred members.
Each County now organized shall always be entitled to one Representative; the remainder to be apportioned among the several Counties according to the number of adult male inhabitants, taking two thousand as the ratio, until the number of Representatives amounts to one hundred, when they shall not be further increased, but the ratio of representation shall, from time to time, be increased as hereinafter provided; so that the Representatives shall never exceed that number. And until the enumeration of the inhabitants is taken by the United States government, A. D. 1880, the Representatives shall be apportioned among the several counties, as follows:
"The county of Arkansas shall elect one Representative. The county of Ashley shall elect one Representative. The county of Benton shall elect two Representatives. The county of Boone shall elect one Representative. The county of Bradley shall elect one Representative. The county of Baxter shall elect one Representative. The county of Calhoun shall elect one Representative. The county of Carroll shall elect one Representative. The county of Chicot shall elect one Representative. The county of Columbia shall elect two Representatives. The county of Clark shall elect two Representatives. The county of Conway shall elect one Representative. The county of Craighead shall elect one Representative. The county of Crawford shall elect one Representative. The county of Cross shall elect one Representative. The county of Crittenden shall elect one Representative. The county of Clayton shall elect one Representative. The county of Dallas shall elect one Representative. The county of Desha shall elect one Representative. The county of Drew shall elect one Representative. The county of Dorsey shall elect one Representative. The county of Franklin shall elect one Representative. The county of Fulton shall elect one Representative. The county of Faulkner shall elect one Representative. The county of Grant shall elect one Representative. The county of Greene shall elect one Representative. The county of Garland shall elect one Representative. The county of Hempstead shall elect two Representatives. The county of Hot Spring shall elect three Representatives. The county of Howard shall elect one Representative. The county of Independence shall elect two Representatives. The county of Izard shall elect one Representative. The county of Jackson shall elect one Representative. The county of Jefferson shall elect three Representatives. The county of Johnson shall elect one Representative. The county of Lafayette shall elect one Representative. The county of Lawrence shall elect one Representative. The county of Little River shall elect one Representative. The county of Lonoke shall elect two Representatives. The county of Lincoln shall elect one Representative. The county of Lee shall elect two Representatives. The county of Madison shall elect one Representative. The county of Marion shall elect one Representative. The county of Monroe shall elect one Representative. The county of Montgomery shall elect one Representative. The county of Mississippi shall elect one Representative. The county of Nevada shall elect one Representative. The county of Newton shall elect one Representative. The county of Ouachita shall elect two Representatives. The county of Perry shall elect one Representative. The county of Phillips shall elect three Representatives. The county of Pike shall elect one Representative. The county of Polk shall elect one Representative. The county of Pope shall elect one Representative. The county of Poinsett shall elect one Representative. The county of Pulaski shall elect four Representatives. The county of Prairie shall elect one Representative. The county of Randolph shall elect one Representative. The county of Saline shall elect one Representative. The county of Sarber shall elect one Representative. The county of Scott shall elect one Representative. The county of Searcy shall elect one Representative. The county of Sebastian shall elect two Representatives. The county of Sevier shall elect one Representative. The county of Sharp shall elect one Representative. The county of St. Francis shall elect one Representative. The county of Stone shall elect one Representative. The county of Union shall elect two Representatives. The county of Van Buren shall elect one Representative. The county of Washington shall elect three Representatives. The county of White shall elect two Representatives. The county of Woodruff shall elect one Representative. The county of Yell shall elect one Representative.
"Sec. 2. The Legislature shall, from time to time, divide the State into convenient Senatorial districts, in such manner that the Senate shall be based upon the adult male inhabitants of the State; each Senator representating an equal number as nearly as practicable, and until the enumeration of the inhabitants is taken by the United States government A. D. 1880, the districts shall be arranged as follows:
"The counties of Greene, Craighead and Clayton shall compose the First district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Randolph, Lawrence and Sharp shall compose the Second district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Carroll, Boone and Newton shall compose the Third district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Johnson and Pope shall compose the Fourth district, and elect one Senator.
"The county of Washington shall compose the Fifth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Independence and Stone shall compose the Sixth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Woodruff, St. Francis, Cross and Crittenden shall compose the Seventh district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Yell and Sarber shall compose the Eighth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Saline, Hot Spring and Grant shall compose the Ninth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Pulaski and Perry shall compose the Tenth district, and elect two Senators.
"The county of Jefferson shall compose the Eleventh district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Lonoke and Prairie shall compose the Twelfth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Arkansas and Monroe shall compose the Thirteenth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Phillips and Lee shall compose the Fourteenth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Desha and Chicot shall compose the Fifteenth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Lincoln, Dorsey and Dallas shall compose the Sixteenth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Drew and Ashley shall compose the Seventeenth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Bradley and Union shall compose the Eighteenth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Calhoun and Ouachita shall compose the Nineteenth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Hempstead and Nevada shall compose the Twentieth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Columbia and Lafayette shall compose the Twenty-first district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Little River, Sevier, Howard, and Polk shall compose the Twenty-second district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Fulton, Izard, Marion and Baxter shall compose the Twenty-third district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Benton and Madison shall compose the Twenty-fourth district and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Crawford and Franklin shall compose the Twenty-fifth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Van Buren, Conway and Searcy shall compose the Twenty-sixth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of White and Faulkner shall compose the Twenty-seventh district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Sebastian and Scott shall compose the Twenty-eighth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Poinsett, Jackson and Mississippi shall compose the Twenty-ninth district, and elect one Senator.
"The counties of Clark, Pike and Montgomery shall compose the Thirtieth district, and elect one Senator.
"And the Senate shall never consist of less than thirty, nor more than thirty-five members.
"Sec. 3. Senatorial districts shall at all times consist of contiguous territory, and no county shall be divided in the formation of a senatorial district.
"Sec. 4. The division of the State into Senatorial districts, and the apportionment of Representatives to the several counties, shall be made by the General Assembly at the first regular session after each enumeration of the inhabitants of the State by the Federal or the State government, shall have been ascertained, and at no other time."
Ark. Const. Amend. 45 amended the article as amended by Ark. Const. Amend. 23. See Publisher's Notes following §§ 1-6 for details of amendments to each section.