Composition of the Legislative Assemblies

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....nstituencies in the State. (2) For the purposes of clause (1), each State shall be divided into territorial constituencies in such manner that the ratio between the population of each constituency and the number of seats allotted to it shall, so far as practicable, be the same throughout the State. ^2[Explanation.-In this clause, the expression "population" means the population as ascertaine....

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....d further that such readjustment shall take effect from such date as the President may, by order, specify and until such readjustment takes effect, any election to the Legislative Assembly may be held on the basis of the territorial constituencies existing before such readjustment: Provided also that until the relevant figures for the first census taken after the year ^6[2026] have been publish....

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....rial constituency in the Legislative Assembly of a State shall be on the basis of the population of that constituency as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published and shall, save in the case of the autonomous districts of Assam and the constituency comprising the cantonment and municipality of Shillong, be on a scale of not more than one member for ....

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.... that such readjustment shall not affect representation in the Legislative Assembly until the dissolution of the then existing Assembly." 2. Substituted vide Article 29 of the Constitution (42nd Amendment) Act, 1976 dated 18-12-1976 w.e.f. 03-01-1977, before it was read as,  "Explanation.-In this clause, the expression 'population' means the population as ascertain....