Imperial Valley press., 1920-11-26
CO.
LEADS STATE
IN CENSUS
GROWTH
In ReapportiOnment County
Will Get Assemblyman
and Half a Senator; I'm
portant Changes Forecast
in January Readjustment.
(By Associated Press)

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26.-Re-
apporticnment of representation IN
the California legislature promises
to be one of the most important
contests of the 44th session of that
body, opening in january.
The number of members in the leg
islature is set by the constitution at
40 for the senate and 80 for the as
sembly, the apportionment to be based
on population shown by the decennlal
United States census. The present
representation is based on the 1910
figures showing population Of q
377,54 in California, the unit of pop
ulation being 1854 persons for each
assemblyman and 59,288 for each SER
atcr. The 1920 census showed the
population to be 3,487,709, the new
unit of population being 42.963 for
each assenlblyman anc 25,927 for
each senator. ...,....,z. III.
Apparently those sections OF Call
fornia in which the growth OF. popu-
lation during the last decade has been
proportionate TO that of the entire
state will maintain their present rep
resentation, while those that show un-
usually large increases will gain rep
resehtation at the expense of those
that have made little gain or have ac-
tually lost in population. ..
Two senatorial districts, comprising
nine counties, and four assembly dis
tricts, comprising II counties, snow
an actual loss in population since 1910.
All of these are in the northern part
of the state, the senatorial districts,
2 and 8, including Lassen, Modoc,
Shasta, Siskiyou, Ell Dorado Nevada,
Placer, Plumas and Sierra countless
and the assembly districts, 3, 8, 16 and
Al, including the counties Of Shasta,
Trinity, Placer, Nevada, Ell Dorado,
Amador, Calaveras. Alpine, lnyo,
Mono, Mariposa and Tuolumne.
The greatest gain among the sena-
torial districts is credited to No. 80,
including Imperial, Orange and River
side counties, whi.:h increased its pop
rlation from 82.723 to 165,055 in the
last 10 years. Assembly district No.
78, Imrrr,al coun $. led all otHc's its
population growing from 1881 TO
1888 during the decade just ended.
Los Angeles county. which now has
eight senators and Is assemblymen,
climbed from a population of 504,131
in 1910 to 936,368 in 1920, as against
a growth in San Francisco, the other
chief center of population in Califor-
MIA from 416,912 to 506,676. Ten
years ago San Francisco lost five as
semblymen, and now has Is and SEN
ators.
There appears to be no possibility
of , lo,I1ooly ,,ra1,opti,,o, tho 1aOi clo
ture from mkaking a reapportion
ment, as the state constitution, declar-
ing that the census taken every ten
years shall be the basis thereof, adds:
g. ..and the legislature shall at its
first session after each census, adjust
such districts and reapportion the rep
resentation so as to preserve them as
nearly equal in population as may be-"
Two other noteworthy statements
in this section read:
"In the formation of such districts
no county or city and county shall be
divided. unless it contains sufficient
population within itself to form two
or more districts, nor shall part of
any county or of any city and county
be united with any other county or
city and county in forming any dis
trict."
"But in making such adjustment no
PERSONS who are not eligible to become
citizens of the United States, under the
naturalization laws, shall be counted as
forming part of the population of
anv district"
Fmctuation of population in the
legislative districts of local counties
during the last ten wears is shown as
follows:
Senatorial Districts 1910 1920
30 San Bernardino, In
70 ...............6 .63,780 50,432
80 Imperial Orange,
Riverside =. ..82,732 165,055
40 San Diego 81 .6f5 10 oAs