NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 821
SENATE BILL 313

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH SENATORIAL DISTRICTS AND TO APPORTION SEATS IN THE SENATE AMONG DISTRICTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 120‑1 is hereby deleted and the following inserted in lieu thereof:
"§ 120‑1. Senators. — For the purpose of nominating and electing members of the Senate in 1982 and every two years thereafter, senatorial districts are established and seats in the Senate are apportioned among those districts as follows:
District 1 shall consist of Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 2 shall consist of Carteret, Craven, and Pamlico Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 3 shall consist of Onslow County and shall elect one Senator.
District 4 shall consist of New Hanover and Pender Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 5 shall consist of Duplin, Jones, and Lenoir Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 6 shall consist of Edgecombe and Halifax Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 7 shall consist of Martin and Pitt Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 8 shall consist of Franklin, Nash, Vance, Warren, and Wilson Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 9 shall consist of Greene and Wayne Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 10 shall consist of Johnston and Sampson Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 11 shall consist of Cumberland County and shall elect two Senators.
District 12 shall consist of Bladen, Brunswick, and Columbus Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 13 shall consist of Hoke and Robeson Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 14 shall consist of Durham, Granville, and Person Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 15 shall consist of Harnett, Lee and Wake Counties and shall elect three Senators.
District 16 shall consist of Alleghany, Ashe, Surry and Watauga Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 17 shall consist of Rockingham and Stokes Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 18 shall consist of Chatham, Moore, Orange, and Randolph Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 19 shall consist of Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Scotland, Stanly, and Union Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 20 shall consist of Alamance and Caswell Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 21 shall consist of Forsyth County and shall elect two Senators.
District 22 shall consist of Guilford County and shall elect three Senators.
District 23 shall consist of Davidson, Davie, and Rowan Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 24 shall consist of Cabarrus and Mecklenburg Counties and shall elect four Senators.
District 25 shall consist of Alexander, Catawba, Iredell, and Yadkin Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 26 shall consist of Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Mitchell, and Wilkes Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 27 shall consist of Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, and Rutherford Counties and shall elect three Senators.
District 28 shall consist of Buncombe, Madison, McDowell, and Yancey Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 29 shall consist of Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Polk, Swain, and Transylvania Counties and shall elect two Senators."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of July, 1981.