West Virginia Federal Grants and County and Municipal Aid Amendment, Amendment 5 (1972)
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The West Virginia Federal Grants and County and Municipal Aid Amendment, Amendment 5, also known as Amendment No. 5, was on the ballot in West Virginia on November 7, 1972, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. [1]
Election results
| West Virginia Amendment 5 (1972) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 330,829 | 61.80% | ||
| No | 204,492 | 38.20% | ||
Election results via: West Virginia Secretary of State
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| The purpose of this proposed amendment is to amend the State Constitution to permit the Legislature to appropriate state funds for use in matching or maximizing grants-in-aid from the Federal Government or others to any county, municipality or other political subdivision of the State and to impose or dedicate a state tax or taxes from the aid of counties, municipalities or other political subdivisions of the State.[2] |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, "REFERENDA AND PRIMARY ELECTION MATERIALS" [Computer file: ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI, 1995.]
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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