New York Amendment Number Eight: County Requirements (1973)

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The New York Amendment Number Eight: County Requirements, also known as Proposed Amendment No. 8, was on the ballot in New York on November 6, 1973, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. The referendum would have deleted "the requirement that no county may be erected unless its population shall entitle it to a member of the assembly."[1][2]

Election results

New York Proposed Amendment No. 8 (1973)
ResultVotesPercentage
Defeatedd No1,755,33161.34%
Yes1,106,28438.66%

Election results via: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

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  1. New York State Court System, "Votes Cast for and against Proposed Constitutional Conventions and also Proposed Constitutional Amendments," accessed October 20, 2015
  2. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. REFERENDA AND PRIMARY ELECTION MATERIALS [Computer file]. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1995. doi:10.3886/ICPSR00006.v1