People Ex Rel. Giannis v. Carpentier

This is an original petition for writ of mandamus brought by Gus Giannis, a qualified voter, against the State Electoral Board seeking to compel the Board to require all candidates for State Senator in 1964 to be elected at large rather than from the Senatorial districts established by the Reapportionment Act of 1955. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1955, chap. 46, par. 158 — 1 et seq.; see Donovan v. Holzman, 8 Ill.2d 87.) Twenty-nine of the Senate’s fifty-eight seats will be in contest in 1964.

The legislature failed in 1963 to redistrict the State for the purpose of electing members of the House…