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New Hampshire term limits for Governor Amendment (1982)
The New Hampshire term limits for Governor Amendment was on the ballot in New Hampshire on November 2, 1982, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. This measure proposed the amendment of the New Hampshire constitution to limit the governor to two consecutive terms.[1]
Election results
| New Hampshire Term limits for Governor (1982) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 No | 93,081 | 38.08% | ||
| Yes | 151,379 | 61.92% | ||
Election results via: Manual for the General Court 1983
Note: Although this measure gathered more "yes" votes, it did not pass because New Hampshire requires that an amendment receive greater than two-thirds of the vote to be approved.
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