| Show - : !:!7f2 - "" tt- '4 ! I V - - - vi - - ' 1 ) In int !Ate Tribune Pun Any Merril Fait 19U1 Who Caincd What in Compromike? County Redistricting Issue Sealed Demos Took Senate SprILLI 11 T S :Itej House 1 r Irr---1- i Chart Favors GOP Py hatt irk It k Itibutie Ststi CtitiVolfp ee '$1 1 element nom non under lAity clef Vlore It!tfilent coolies Cutty plots-etrItP- It rnu to f) I hake tr CO14111) and rotor° Tr 'I ttle er4 t-- 1 il c—: Is -- 1$:1 J -- sic- - t 47 i LL z I11 I - i - - spectively ° i senate ! trt ' -0 (N I 'rit t f ' -- 1 RI' ! R I 114 q:' 10 O t s 1 1- r-- irl- tl - 5rA TA e 2 w sa Z' Nr 11 2 mci SOUTH ' ' I O ? ' 71 Ai 46 i00 A 0 " I Larger scale map shows the senatorial and legislative district borders In Salt Lake 4 1'' flan COIIPTI ' ' If so the Republicans relin tinished the alternate for a House map which appear a to be distinctly more to their advantage than the former districting with which the GOP has teen volubly discontent since carrying the county narrowly In 1954 only to find that it had come out on the short end of a 9 and 10 House delegation On the new map roll" right districts were Demo cratic in that year vvilile 12 were Republican and one Was "neutral" (but shaded Republican) However many of the districts IA ere divided closely enough that either party can tope to rapture several seats In which the opposition' has A 'normal" edge 4 I N 4 k 4 0 - ??t- ' l'arties Senate District No 3 District No 10 Ltgis lathe District No 11 Ltgislative District No 13 I i 4100 3300 4150 8 200 I 5650 6550 i 6C1)0 111)50 18400 I Senate District No 350 crio 2400 4150 4850 6050 1 4 4 1 69!)0 10200 17150 6 A i I --2600 2450 1500 District No 19 District No 20 Legislatise District No 21 Legislative Legislative 4 4 Third TI nle Atlimn Alals Its 'Split' slide a ActioninUtati I CarS Late 4 I 3 c t I 1 en and Immediate bound the newly-create- suburbs Heavy lines Senate districts d ity which the Republicans have hower tarried the county by 8t1 per cent in 1952 but the not enjoyed since the 1920s (President Dwight D Eisen- - party vote" held only a CI per cent margin 1 I r 0 ther C1)1111ileS is lit ke IhStrietS 3 THE SAME reasoning the Democrats would need about an 8 per cent party major- ity to capture their fourth BY 11i tr2 Weber Davis and Utah Coon - Senate seat in District Three ties which per per cent Republi- - -- ? d I i 1 1 I ' ''- - 4410104 Just north is District which has the same political 2 1 schizophrenia but went Republican by 7 per tent in - - ' :It4' i :i : ' i '" ' N II IiI 1 ' in t q) t - ':!: t i A 0 J - t f L 0 sena-icaptur- e ! - (1111iDI apportionment act all have can year) They have not been 11 II : their boundary line able to arhieve that comfort- - 1951 i however (Republicans able a margin since the RoostAlso not out of reach to the juzaaatuasza41)EaD 1 hold four of the six seats 1Veber and Utah each will velt era I Democrats are Districts 7 and I through at least thp 1057 legis- henceforth be split into two Of course with a candidate 12 which might slip out of the I -------:-- A Lr':"'AM lative session sinef one of their Senate districts and also have capable of L) ZZIED a good Republican fold in any year h holdovers from is District added a sixth ItOUNC district scratch vole attracting either party might as bad—from their standpoint al-CFour) cittl) Davis still has one a fourth seat with as um : 21142 In 1954 the areas which now tor but was divided into two ' less ticket strength but Districts 5 8 and 16 (11 to slightly will be senatorial districts voted House districts Sanpete CounJ the odds are that the Salt Lake i per tent Republican- in 1 in these party proportions: N a ty was "undistricted" which of County delegation is going to 1954) would seem to be safely tl) fjITI No 1 6634 Republican fered no problem: its two 1Iouse occupy three scats on each side Republican barring anything' n 11 No 2 also Republican districts were combined intolo( the Senate chamber in the worse than has happened to ) t No 3 one Republican GOP New Deal 'years to come since the days iiit23023 gi1321) Democratic No 4 o Even more strongly in the 5 Democratic I 1 fold are Districts publican 111111) ‘11) I No 115912-4(lt- i Democratic 9 17 and 18 (by 16 to 20 per 1 i lirjtcuttql1:11)41I1Dgal172s o cent t years ago) Thus the Republicans 1 t would appear to have the ! i 16 leaves WHEN AND District 1 THAT TI1E committee adopteasiest enemy stronghold to 17 fold the Republican the Repub ed its compromise unanimously i:-' '1 t crack in District Four (Ira 1 1 (without having the issues set1 have folded They car i Deans Since the district went 4 j-1tled by vote of the neutral All 1954 "party strength" evaluations on this page are 1 ICM tied by nearly 30 per cent at 4 based upon the state Senate vole in Salt Lake County in chairman) is indicative that per cent Democratic in a year ror the last partisan election V walp 1 0 7171 neither side was unduly con which saw the county go 21i that election r ? t From 'r4A01 other the viewpoint cerned over the concessions it per cent Republican however Scratch voting clouded the party divisions with the I CED3ED ' 3074 70 GOP nominee eiiiier must the the first normally Democratic granted a or ride result that the various races for congressional and county Solving the districting prob- pick up strong scratch to fall to a Republican ' districtS k 1 offices 4 4 Mt went substantially-Republicasubstantially--Democrati- c both and lem involved several complica- in on a 7 per cent party major surge probably would be 4 and : tions for the committee which :121) c120 14 where the GOP was only ' i ''' ' However the respective slates of (three) Senate candi44 was made up of Edward 3 per cent short in 1954 close dates ran all in disrticts Indication an Stalemate? i voting together 4 Revamp Watson and Ray P Greenwood Safe ' A ( for the Democrats that HWY Probably were most representative Of the party- r 4 ff Democrats Et IL Parkinni and GOP a i hut House (61) against anything I :'! 7211 vl Italie 4 wise political temper at the time ''! e 71 :t'4 0:7 I I Robert C Poe Republicans and A ' :Z landslide of considerable proCn"ngo"'ei' AV 4 A new rek the under membership The vote was for total slates Senate the 56876 average John M Wallace neutral chair11 15 and Districts are portions ' 1 Republican and 51146 Democratic or about 527 per cent t apportionment leaves the possi(42 man 19 (over 8 per cent Democratic) ' ' ' - Ve V 'f''i 17' ' - : :pf:ei and cent 473 Democratic 7 a '11 ' per '' ''' For one thing by the time bility of repetition of the 1951 Republican and even the landslide prob: As a double check votes for Republican and Democratic 4 """ ' tn4 '' they had Jested constitutional- session when 30 Democrats and ably could not touch districts mita :44 races were totaled The 10 13 and 21 which the Demo7 ity of the reapportionment act 30 Republicans deadlocked for - eandidatesln all other county-widvia a friendly court suit they four days over electifig a party proportions were approximately the same as 011ie crats carried by from 1312 to 1 Here are the voting districts which make Senate districts Some voting districts Senate voting have been changed since the were faced with a pressing timelspeaker 11814 per cent In 1954 up the House districts which comprise the completed will revisions - a4) are G It 0 In - '' i c'taLti - t 0 ' f 4 66-3- 1 60-4- 54'2-451- 2 Re-N- 63-3- 'P arty Strength Etaltu It 0 it - ---- - ote Earn 0 tallIP : I Al al ii tV a) 7 - :- 17!:r 4417:E4 MI ' : - -- CtRin Oi 4 ID - ' 3 I 1 -- f I re 1 Nvysymorammommoibt cta manowleiumt 1 :'1 i 1 t n i :C) 4- 1-1-4 -- 'i i4 ':r 1: 4' I i '''''' 1 ' '''7'- '4 -''' k L- - '1 1' : - '44:A:71-4- c r I I sei I 1 i - to ' I -- I 1 A 5 k T 4- e I ' :' :11 k14 - 4 -- 'T 4 i ' 4 N I -- --- - - - - -- - '"'''""' " - - ' S ': ""-- 1 ' - " "'" ' " '' '" "''' '' ' a -- 4 " ' " ' "- 4 4" - a a' a 'I a - a a e a aa a a - o ' f aw a a aa a a la A: ' A - 4 a I op a la - - " aa - ''' '': 1rcTrrrx7Lgmtf MPOMID qam qaTIttl:3 iij (D i Ovmiorwgmxoaasvoma"eamreo-WPPPOWIPIkw- a- S''' 5000 1 Senate District No 5 - 4 654)0 9900 18200 2100 2350 2400 Legislative :- - 1 6700 3550 3450 2900 8300 4 ' it 4f400 lonwimElff 7200 1S15O 3150 3050 2100 Senate Dibtrict No ':: :1 womeanea 10950 Legislative District No 4 Legls lathe District No 14 Legisisuse District No 13 I 5 -- 44700 44) ON THE HOUSE SIDE only ' two of the 21 districts offer a potential fight between incum- The 1955 reapportionment act in the Senate 29 35 In the candidates will bentk according to the home Republican listed in the 1955 ros- - 'Ives addresses the third reapportionment Ituuse have a running start in 12 of ter Salt Lakes 21 rtew House di- - Two Democrats Reap All xrt kor fourth apportionment) o 1954i J Cope and Rep Hubert Coch-- 1 the Utah Legislature 41 tricts according to the Irene have been put into Legis- - U As set up in the 1896l 1 electton abstracts lathe District 10 and District! 'V' Actually the Republican vote 20 now includes the residencies state constitution the Senate 1L1 ran ahead of the Democratic !of both Rep Wendell Grover had 18 seats and the House 45 vote in 13 districts two years a Democrat and Rep Harold V Utah was 14 years late in re Considering Salt Lake Weber ago but in one instance the Davis a Republican and Utah counties to be the apportioning last year and then Got) margin was less than the Four of the new districts Nos "urban" area the rural-urbabarely made it party's countywide edge In' 7 11 15 and 18 have no it was 9 to 9 in the Senate By terms of the state contd dicating that the 1:11trict may dent incumbents and No 54'27-1in the House tution rural the legislative seats are have a Democratic tinge in a seat is vacant through a resig- to be reshuffled every supposed TIIE FIRST reapportionment 10 hypothetical year when the !nation years to keep current with county is in 50 50 voting equi-was not made for 25 years when population changes librium the 1921 act increased the Send The last previous reappor- Several districts on either ate to 20 members (10 rural and tionment was made in 1931 and E side of the fence however are t reapportionment bills have no 10 one that marginal enough urban) and the house to 55 been introduced into every sestake them for granted par- members (31 to 24 rural) sion since 1941 only to get since House midiIn 1931 the Legislature for Ocularly in the erossfire- - of an caught dates—running In smaller dis- Since statehood Salt Lake the first and only time to date urban-rura- l fight for legislative tricts where they are more per- - County has gained more voice complied with the constitutional tonally known — can and do In the Utah House but lost in provision for decennial reappor- control pick up larger proportions of the Senate tionment Since then the line- MOST CARING Inequities ''scratch" and "split" votes "rural" in in recent years were the under up has been In the various reapportion"rural" in the representation of Davis rnents the county has had in the Senate UP FOR GRABS is LegislaCounty House (although by some reek- - iuhich had 5 of 18 seats 6 of the Senate only one House seat the District No 20 which 20 seats 7 of 23 seats and onings Davis Courny's one sen- - and the of sprawls over the southeastern now—under the 1955 ator arid one representative which had two reapCounty Sanpete south-eentral and reaches of the portionment act- -6 of 25 were counted "urban" instead House seats - of "rural") county and combines heavily seats The compromise measure in House the But Lake Salt areas both of which partisan THE NEW reapportionment parties finally was forced through the 1D55 session 'took It went Republican by about 1i started out in 1896 with only gives the rural areas clear-cu- t 10 of 45 seats and then sucone senator away from Salt per cent in 1954 when the councontrol of the Senate and urbad Lake County and 16 of to cessively gained up regrouped a ty as whole went Republican 55 seats 19 of 60 seats and areas somewhat shakier control rural counties to give therm by about 2ti per cent of the House three more senators Also marginal is District 3 21 of 64 seats The "big three" counties will On the House aide Salt Lake Thus the county now holds which running from Alain eastward north of 6th South is 24 per cent of the Senate vote have only 10 of 25 senators but gains two seats and Davis If' Weber and Utah Counties one Democratic at one end and and Just short of 33 per cent 33 of 64 representatives is of Davis to House vote the considered be urban leach while Sanpete loses one at the other Two Republican rune strengths are cut to its representatives years ago Republican s carried - - Wille P 5 a r00rafcent by squeaky 21i per rftS ' ' ' s' ':''' '' per cent 'safety margin" ' !: Even-nitmbere- 4 2000 1000 1m1111 -- : 244 19200 i " i 4200 2700 111:101aZa 1 l'''' 1 )0 31-2- Basetl on Staie Senate I 1R00 65 12KYO 411NO 4700 12-1- Primaries Main Test of SL So ions senators from Salt1 Lake County probably wilt' meet their hardest tests in their sl own party nominations at 41 the primary elections Under normal circumstances nominees should Republican walk away with Senate Di stricts 1 2 and 3 Demotratic nominees should win Districts 4 5 and 6 with similar ease at the No- vember polls 1500 2MO 2400 2 18800 5150 34V1 2 41x) li() In Reapporltons District Split Appears Secure Future 1774 1100 1900 1800 - 4 Legistatie 1)istrict No 2 Legislattse District No 3 Ltitisliti‘e District No 12 To 1 SL Keeps an edge) The assumption to be made Is that the alternative Senate boundaries would have given the Republicans as good a guarantee on three seats and better prospects for a fourth 6700 18S00 1 I City I 4 S 01 1 - t tts 4 to 0 01 "1 3 8!'0 resi-impl- t i 11141 SOUTH 0 1300 n or Fe) 5!)0 - 4 i 4 11"21 No 44 000 3050 Senate District No Legislattle Distrkt 131K1 11100 1 7 3 Di Ntrict No 1700 oo l i kVi A r' 'iy -: 18 District No Legklativ Legislative 2 CM 2-- Senate Digtrict No Leeslathe Diatrict No 5 Legis lathe District No 8 l --- -- 17 i i '' a l'"' 4 0 A A- I IA !(T 0 A '44 143 As to t ' VW' trg - K'- 9 16 - i fl vik VS T cc! JORDAN S4 r--- 0 - - ocratic Total 300 100 4 600 bean 1 Iiistricts Evaluated le) --- 1 Iktn 1:rpt11)- - DISTRICT TWO ill elect a senator this fall but it Is 'home" to two Republican Incumbents hose terms are expiring—Sen )rank M Openshaw and Sen D K Hammond Sen Elias I Day seventh member of the all Republican incumbent delegation II the holdover In District rout Hesefly Democratic Districts Five and Six ill hold elections this year along with heat ily Repub! Lean District making it an odds-obet that the delegation at the 1957 session! ill include four Republicans and two Democrats S lwr ItTAddi k ' ' t li Z t rT 7111 - ' I "'I 'Iri r IN ew fr t 147 - COVOITI II 1 1 Indicate symbols Tarty in 1954 elections complexions 0 SOUTH 4 if districts political 'I I t417N 4- 6101143A r i rf ' s II 1 1 IL i S3 - mr" er es 1 k lative i ) I 16 ) WM - 10 11 i "A li 1-- It 1 ' ''''' 1 then reassembling the voting districts into the new legislative district combinations the political complexions of the new rnaps can be pretty clearly determined (bearing in mind that some years are more cultic some more than 1954 was) From the breakdown It aprears that the Democrats Were willing and eager to settle for an even break in the Senate As adopted three of the districts were solidly Republican In 1954 and three were solidly COVIITT r- - I Ot Nommen i of Ss It Lakes outlying legier map shows location dktricts and County r BY BREAKING down the 1934 election returns voting district by voting district and J um: I A : wow PL 1 ELECTION DISTRICTS t:()11:vi1'l IN SALT 4 :' N Vmh MAPS SIIOWINCiaA L i N I 1 1-- 15 IMMO WIWI t Under those circumstances It was surprising that the tdpartisan districting committee could reach a tinatItMOUN agree- ment Reportedly members sc complied it by adopting a Senate map favored by the Democrats and a House map Savored by the Republicans The lines were Democratic firm enough that only with a landslide or an exceptionally popular candidate ean either party hope 'to break through for a fourth seat (after the first election in which a holdover senator In a "Democratic's district will give the Republicans - t 1- -7 11 lipt Ina IM"I ' (S-k- t: it -J tr-:--- I Lit 4 i It IT t I -- 1 W' moommm-1"1 r dMricting auto writes off three inRepublicans in the nut The casualties Include Senate President C Taylor Burton 1 o lives In District One in hich no senate race Ill be held this year because it Is a holdover district represented by Stn Merrill K Dasis The same situation exists In Distrkt Three here Sen Sherman P Lloyd Is the holdover and Sen Dilworth S Woolley's term n Is expiring Sen Woolley was on of the authors of the Ite4 reapportionment act which now freezes him out hoeber during thelegislative battle be offered to resign if necessary to resolve sny districting prole le ins 1 1 z SAM - manftimmmlomft11Mv ti 2 1 rall N (I :71 i 16 4 11141 1 V i mew (141 mi f nro 4 rotz71 1 I S9 I6 ' 11 I In Ish!4 Salt Lake Uounty't new legtalatie and ornatortat dibtritts vuted Ike this oing the State Senate tetutna as the party dlOtions: cumbfnt Salt Lake County stelega- - Leolatk e 1)1trict No 1 Lon sthether they had in 141111atle Ihstrict No Legislatit DiBtrict No tended to run fur reelection vr Legislith thstrict No I Ana I WoNO 1-- 11 torte" In a row and the party Lad the entire delegation 1cent creates a new set of boundary disputes more touchy if any- thing than the noose lines4 time a Senate seat carries weight than a limo's seat (The new Senate will have 25 mrmbers the 'louse f4 an addition of two and four legislators re- II I" I i 1 the senatorial 'larger districts came out as nearly On the nose" as probably Is vac-bleticable No 5 the largest trict has Z2961 registered sotOe5 And No 6 the smallt difference of only 11160 or little more than 8 per BtT SENATE districting r Here's County's Vole For 1954 Elections Senatorial tt Vwawa ' s 6110 matically o distrii-t- Two r wiry - -- ('! i t! 1-- - r hat of its Effect? T4 COP Senators Written Off In Di Adding T1 'IN - i 1- -1 j candidates 1A2 iftio t1 - tonal J an 12 1 1 itt Formerly Salt Lakes aena tors have been elected &t large usually meant that the party nhich carried the rounlY V4 ert In Its rot:re slate of sena 1-- 1 fi J 11111 4-1- It 411 1p13 LI t ttaun pito the same senatorisi (Loris t 1 e te- inure legal questions would hasp versos' 11!--hs en tau4 Aa it (little OA I taa left one 1li1 osers are In dftho three Mi() itkilt gained tt ferent t1it i ts (1 3 and 4i hat or the cool-1101tostio ting tlss liousts has a frimit senators t‘l'h-1"twrn be elected In district 2 Z and in the county bei lose of 111110! I this year and the stargered extreme rourieri geo term arrangement tan be total the county continued Although in ithout disruption Is es erily bilam cd brisseen Re1 wally the committee mai publicans and Dettloff RIA there faced with the mathematical little homogeneity dilemma ot dding the rounty Instead there are heavilY into 21 legislative districts of Democratic areas offs-e- t ty approsimatrly equal voting beastly Republican -- tett a strength thr diIin g the 21 aituation ripe for gerrynianlegislatise districts into $ix I senatorial districts without di- drrtiL No Douse dstrioting plan to toting a legislative district date has oto been completely Tilt SMALLEST legislatie district currently has 5 satisfactory to both sides reit To that Under the 1975 re islet-rvoters and the largest pportionmeot art added gun- possder in the form of districhl By groupings of four smaller trg the Senate as vell as the tlegislative districts or three i‘rt ilp in Sslt oy toe historic Irms '4"''' 4 the 1 i11 legislatie timers vs ere to get at all in Salt Lake If I 01 1 I 4 I k i |
