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For much of its history, the [[Libertarian Party of California]] was divided into numbered '''Regions''' for organizational purposes. | |||
In the early years, the state was subdivided into 20 regions. The geographic areas and their numbers were defined by the state party. | |||
Later, a system was used in which most counties were their own region, and the region number was simply the position of the county name in alphabetical order. However, the bylaws allowed for two or more counties to voluntarily join together into a single region. In such cases, typically the county number of one of the constituent counties was used as the region number. The bylaws also allowed counties to divide themselves into multiple regions. In those cases, region numbers higher than 60 were used. (California has 58 counties.) Under this system, the largest regions elected their own representatives to the state Executive Committee, while the remaining regions participated in a joint election for additional representatives. | |||
Since the early 2000s, counties have been the primary organizational unit, and region numbers are no longer used. (Some county organizations may still have internal subdivisions for their own purposes, but these don't have any separate status for state party purposes.) Counties are no longer represented directly on the state Executive Committee. | |||
California is also divided into two large geographical parts, North and South, for certain purposes. The LPC has a Northern Vice Chair and a Southern Vice Chair based on this partition. Because the term "region" is no longer used to refer to smaller units, these larger parts of the state are now sometimes referred to as "regions", even though they are entirely different in scale and don't have the same organizational features as the regions discussed here. | |||
==Numbered Regions== | ==Numbered Regions== | ||
''(circa 1999)'' | |||
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