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New York District Attorney Election, Amendment 1 (1972)

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The New York District Attorney Election, Amendment 1, also known as Proposed Amendment No. 1, was on the ballot in New York on November 7, 1972, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. This amendment provided "that in each county a district attorney shall be chosen by the electors once in every three or four years as the legislature shall direct."[1][2]

Election results

New York Proposed Amendment No. 1 (1972)
ResultVotesPercentage
Approveda Yes2,478,10059.69%
No1,673,62740.31%

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