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2012 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE IX SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS
Chapter 128 Election of Electors and Electoral Districts--Congressional Districts
Section 128.020 New congressional apportionment--duty of governor.


MO Rev Stat § 128.020 (2012) What's This?

New congressional apportionment--duty of governor.

128.020. When any new apportionment shall be made of the members to be elected to the house of representatives of the United States, whereby the number of electors to which this state may be entitled shall be increased or diminished, it shall be the duty of the governor to lay off the state into as many districts as shall be equal to the number of electors to which this state shall then be entitled, so that the said districts contain, as near as may be, an equal number of inhabitants.

(RSMo 1939 12312)

Prior revisions: 1929 10731; 1919 5286; 1909 2745

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