Illinois County Officer Term Limit Amendment (1944)

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The Illinois County Officer Term Limit Amendment was on the ballot in Illinois on November 7, 1944, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. It proposed to remove the constitutional provision that required elected county officers to wait for four years after their term expired before they were eligible to hold that office again.

Election results

Illinois County Officer Term Limits (1944)
Result		Votes	Percentage
d No		653,877	42.13%
Yes		898,107	57.87%

Election results via: Illinois Blue Book 1961-1962

Note: Although this measure gathered more "yes" votes, it did not pass because at the time of the vote Illinois required that amendments receive a vote of more than 50 percent of those voting in the election. There were 4,079,024 voters in this election, requiring at least 2,039,513 “yes” votes for the measure to pass.

See also

Suggest a link

• Illinois 1944 ballot measures
• 1944 ballot measures
• List of Illinois ballot measures
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Illinois

External links

• Illinois Blue Book 1961-1962