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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) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 No | 2,286,190 | 57.71% | ||
| Yes | 1,675,316 | 42.29% | ||
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
- ↑ 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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