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Massachusetts House of Representatives
The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 12 counties each divided into single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. The House of Representatives convenes at the Massachusetts State House in Boston.
==Representation==
Representatives used to be apportioned by town. For the first 150 persons, one representative was granted, and this ratio increased as the population of the town increased. The largest membership of the House was 749 in 1812 (214 of these being from the District of Maine); the largest House without Maine was 635 in 1837.〔''The Massachusetts State House'', p. 110, 111. Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Boston, 1953.〕 The original distribution was changed to the current regional population system in the 20th century. Until 1978, there were 240 members of the house,〔(League of Women Voters of Massachusetts )〕 a number in multi-member districts; today there are 160 in single-member districts.〔See Amendment CI of the Massachusetts Constitution, adopted by voters in 1974〕
Today, each Representative represents about 40,000 residents. Their districts are named for the counties they are in and tend to stay within one county, although districts occasionally cross county lines. Representatives serve two-year terms which are not limited.
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