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Kentucky Term Limits on Sheriffs, Amendment 1 (1984)

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Kentucky Amendment 1 was a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Kentucky which was approved on the ballot on November 6, 1984.

This amendment sought to allow sheriffs to be re-elected or to act as deputies for consecutive terms.[1]

Election results

Kentucky amendment 1 (1984)
ResultVotesPercentage
Approveda Yes 512,741 62.8%
No303,98737.2%

Official results via: Kentucky.gov, "Kentucky 1984 Ballot Measures Election Results"

Text on the ballot

The language that appeared on the ballot:

Shall Section 99 of the Constitution be amended so as to permit sheriffs to be re-elected or act as deputies for succeeding terms?[2][3]

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Footnotes

  1. National Conference of State Legislatures, "Kentucky 1986 Ballot Measures," accessed July 2, 2013
  2. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named kentucky.gov
  3. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.