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Introduced Version House Bill 4164 History

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WEST virginia legislature

2018 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 4164

By Delegates Wagner, Deem, Overington, Zatezalo, Anderson, Statler, Nelson, Hill, Lane, Butler and Ellington

[Introduced January 17, 2018; Referred

to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §1-2-2c, relating to election of members of the House of Delegates in districts having more than one delegate; and providing that the delegates be elected from numbered divisions.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:


ARTICLE 2.  APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATION.

§1-2-2c.  Election by divisions in multimember districts.

For election purposes, beginning at the elections occurring in 2020, in every delegate district having two or more delegates there shall be created numbered divisions corresponding to the number of delegates in each district.  Each delegate shall be elected at large from the entire district.  In each of the numbered divisions of a delegate district, the candidates for nomination or election shall be voted upon and the votes cast for the candidates in each division shall be tallied separately from the votes cast for candidates in the other numbered divisions within the district.  The candidate receiving the highest number of the votes cast within a numbered division shall be nominated, or elected, as the case may be.

 

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide that members of the House of Delegates in districts having more than one delegate be elected from numbered divisions.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.

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