New Mexico Referendum: Creation of Boards of County Commissioners (1973)
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The New Mexico Referendum: Creation of Boards of County Commissioners, also known as Constitutional Amendment No. 5, was on the ballot in New Mexico on November 6, 1973, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The referendum created five-member boards of county commissioners in counties with populations of 100,000 or greater.[1]
Election results
| New Mexico Constitutional Amendment No. 5 (1973) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 20,369 | 50.63% | ||
| No | 19,865 | 49.37% | ||
Election results via: New Mexico Secretary of State
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| Proposing to amend Article 10 of the Constitution of New Mexico by adding a new section to provide for five-member boards of county commissioners elected from districts for staggered terms of four years, in those counties having a population of more than one hundred thousand as shown by the most recent decennial census and having an assessed valuation in excess of seventy-five million dollars. ($75,000,000)[2] |
See also
- New Mexico 1973 ballot measures
- 1973 ballot measures
- List of New Mexico ballot measures
- History of Initiative & Referendum in New Mexico
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia, "Part 43: Referenda Elections for New Mexico," accessed July 27, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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