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New York Proposed Amendment Three, Increase of the Judicial Departments (1972)

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The New York Proposed Amendment Three, Increase of the Judicial Departments, also known as Proposed Amendment 3, was on the ballot in New York on November 7, 1972, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. The referendum would have allowed for an increase of judicial departments from four to five.[1]

Election results

New York Proposed Amendment 3 (1972)
ResultVotesPercentage
Defeatedd No2,286,19057.71%
Yes1,675,31642.29%

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

Text of measure

The question on the ballot:

Proposed Amendment Three, State Constitution, sec. 4, subds. a. and b. (increase from four to five the number of Judicial Departments).[2]

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Footnotes

  1. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, "Referenda and Primary Election Materials, Part 9: Referenda Elections for New York," accessed August 25, 2015
  2. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.