WEST virginia Legislature
2017 regular session
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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:
That the Code of West
Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section,
designated §1-2-2c, to
read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATION.
§1-2-2c. Election by divisions in multimember
districts.
For election purposes, beginning in 2018, in every
delegate district having two or more delegates there shall be numbered
divisions corresponding to the number of delegates in each district. Each delegate shall be elected at large from
the entire district. In each numbered
division 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 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.