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CHAPTER 142
CONGRESSIONAL, SENATORIAL AND ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS
Table of Contents
Sec. 9-9. Representatives in Congress. Districts.
Sec. 9-10. Senatorial districts.
Sec. 9-10a. State senators. Senatorial districts.
Secs. 9-10b to 9-10d. State representatives. Assembly districts. Boundaries of local voting districts.
Sec. 9-11. Notice of election of congressmen and senators.
For the purpose of representation in the Congress of the United States, there shall be elected in the manner provided
by law one representative from each of the six congressional districts into which the
state shall be divided, as follows:
(Districts omitted. See footnote*.)
(1949 Rev., S. 989; 1953, S. 509d; April, 1964, P.A. 2, S. 1.)
*The 2001 Reapportionment Commission appointed pursuant to the provisions of Article XXVI., of the Amendments to
the Constitution of Connecticut to prepare a plan of districting for the state transmitted its plan of districting for congressional
districts to the Secretary of the State on December 21, 2001. The plan entitled "Reapportionment Commission 2001 Plan
of Districting for the Connecticut Congressional Districts" is on file in the office of the Secretary of the State and was
published by the secretary on December 26, 2001, and distributed to town clerks and registrars of voters, the Supreme
Court, the Superior Court, and the State Library. The plan of districting may be accessed on the Internet at www.sots.state.ct.us under "Redistricting Information 2001".
History: 1964 act provided for six congressional districts instead of five congressional districts and one representative
at large. Congressional districts as formerly established by this section declared to violate the equal protection clause of
the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; injunction against holding elections from said districts granted
and new Congressional districts prescribed for use in the November 7, 1972, election by order of the United States District
Court, District of Connecticut. Donnelley v. Meskill, (D.C. 1972) 345 F. Supp. 962.
Cited. 14 CS 421.
Section 9-10 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 990; November, 1964, P.A. 2, S. 4.)
The Senate shall consist of thirty-
six senators, and the state shall be divided into thirty-six districts, in each of which one
senator shall be elected as follows:
(Districts omitted. See footnote*.)
(November, 1964, P.A. 2, S. 3.)
*The 2001 Reapportionment Commission appointed pursuant to the provisions of Article XXVI., of the Amendments
to the Constitution of Connecticut to prepare a plan of districting for the state transmitted its plan of districting for senatorial
districts to the Secretary of the State on November 26, 2001, and transmitted its plan of districting for assembly districts
to the secretary on November 29 and 30, 2001. The plan entitled "Reapportionment Commission 2001 Plan of Districting
for the Connecticut State Senate and the Connecticut House of Representatives" is on file in the office of the Secretary of
the State and was published by the secretary on December 6, 2001, and distributed to the town clerks and registrars of
voters, the Supreme Court, the Superior Court, and the State Library. The plan of districting may be accessed on the Internet
at www.sots.state.ct.us under "Redistricting Information 2001".
History: 1964 act set forth boundaries of thirty-six senatorial districts, effective November, 1966. Reapportionment
required under Sec. 6.a of Article Third of Connecticut Constitution. No plan of districting adopted under Sec. 6.a., b., or
c., of said Article. Plan of districting submitted by board empaneled under Sec. 6.d., of said Article to the secretary of the
state on September 30, 1971, pursuant to Sec. 6.e., of said Article. Election of state senators and state representatives on
November 7, 1972, under said plan of districting ordered by superior court for Hartford County in decision rendered August
23, 1972, in Miller et al v. Schaffer et al. Said decision confirmed by the Supreme Court of the State of Connecticut in
bench ruling dated October 17, 1972. 164 C. 8—31.
Constitutionality of said plan was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 18, 1973. (See Gaffney
v. Meskill, 41 U.S.L.W. 4891.) See also judgment of the United States District Court, District of Connecticut, dated April
4, 1972, in Cummings et al v. Meskill et al, 341 F. Supp. 139, (1972) and stay of judgment by the Supreme Court of the
United States dated June 12, 1972, in Gaffney v. Cummings et al, 407 U.S. 902 (1972).
Secs. 9-10b to 9-10d. State representatives. Assembly districts. Boundaries of
local voting districts. Obsolete. See footnote to Sec. 9-10a.
(November, 1964, P.A. 2, S. 1, 2, 6; December, 1965, P.A. 2, S. 1.)
Section 9-11 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 172; 1953, S. 511d; P.A. 85-577, S. 23.)
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