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New Mexico Nominating Conventions for Candidates Referendum (1964)
| New Mexico Nominating Conventions for Candidates Referendum | |
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| Election date November 3, 1964 | |
| Topic Elections and campaigns | |
Status Approved | |
| Type Referendum | Origin Citizens |
The New Mexico Nominating Conventions for Candidates Referendum was on the November 3, 1964, ballot in New Mexico as a veto referendum. The ballot measure was approved, meaning the law was upheld.
The veto referendum upheld a law that required candidates for certain offices to receive the vote of delegates at a party's nominating convention to appear on the party's primary ballot.[1]
Electors who voted on the veto referendum rejected the targeted law in a vote of three-to-one. However, the state constitution required the veto referendum's repeal option to receive at least 40 percent of the total votes cast at the election. Turnout for the veto referendum was too low for the vote to repeal the targeted law.[2]
The ballot measure was the third veto referendum to appear on a statewide ballot in New Mexico.
Election results
| New Mexico Referendum (1964) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
| For | 29,716 | 25.79% | ||
 Against | 85,513 | 74.21% | ||
Election results via: The New Mexican, “Party Nominating Systems,” February 16, 1965
Ballot title
The language appeared on the ballot as:[1]
| “ | REFERENDUM: REPEAL OF THE PRE-PRIMARY NOMINATING CONVENTION LAW.
Providing pre-primary nominating conventions for candidates for certain offices; providing for direct primary designation for certain other offices. ◻ For ◻ Against[3] |
” |
Path to the ballot
At least 24,713 valid signatures were required to place the veto referendum on the ballot. The veto referendum targeted a bill that the New Mexico State Legislature approved in 1963.[4]
See also
- New Mexico 1964 ballot measures
- 1964 ballot measures
- List of New Mexico ballot measures
- List of veto referendums
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Farmington Daily Times, “End of the Line,” September 28, 1964
- ↑ The New Mexican, “Party Nominating Systems,” February 16, 1965
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Carrizozo Lincoln County News, “Saps get to vote on repeal of pre-primary,” September 1, 1964
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