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Michigan Proposal No. 1, Constitutional Convention Question (1942)

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Michigan Proposal No. 1

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Election date

November 3, 1942

Topic
State constitutional conventions
Status

DefeatedDefeated

Type
Automatic constitutional convention question
Origin

Dictated by law



Michigan Proposal No. 1 was on the ballot as an automatic constitutional convention question in Michigan on November 3, 1942. It was defeated.

A “yes” vote supported calling a state constitutional convention.

A “no” vote opposed calling a state constitutional convention.


Election results

Before 1960, constitutional convention questions in Michigan needed to receive a majority of total votes cast in the election, not just a majority of votes cast on the question.

Michigan Proposal No. 1

Result Votes Percentage
Yes 408,188 46.56%

Defeated No

468,506 53.44%
Results are officially certified.
Source


Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Proposal No. 1 was as follows:

(Proposal No.1)

REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN.

No. 1 Article XVII, Section 4, of the Constitution, provides that in 1926 and each sixteenth year thereafter, the question of a general revision of the Constitution shall be submitted to the electors. If a majority of the electors voting thereon vote in favor of revision, a constitutional convention will be called to draft and propose to the electors a general revision of the Constitution.

Shall there be a general revision of the State Constitution pursuant to Article XVII, Section 4, of said Constitution?

Yes

No 


Path to the ballot

See also: State constitutional conventions

A question about whether to hold a state constitutional convention was to automatically appear on the state's ballot every 16 years starting in 1926.

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