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New York Proposed Amendment One, Election of District Attorneys (1972)
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The New York Proposed Amendment One, Election of District Attorneys, also known as Proposed Amendment 1, was on the ballot in New York on November 7, 1972, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The referendum added new language to the state constitution that allowed for the election of district attorneys for each county.[1]
Election results
| New York Proposed Amendment 1 (1972) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 2,478,100 | 59.69% | ||
| No | 1,673,627 | 40.31% | ||
Election results via: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| Proposed Amendment One, State Constitution, sec. 13, subd. (a), Art. XIII (providing 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).[2] |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Referenda and Primary Election Materials, Part 9: Referenda Elections for New York," accessed August 25, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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