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West Virginia Repeal of the Limitation on Sheriff's Succession, Amendment 4 (1986)
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The West Virginia Repeal of the Limitation on Sheriff's Succession, Amendment 4, also known as Amendment No. 4, was on the ballot in West Virginia on November 4, 1986, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. [1]
Election results
| West Virginia Amendment 4 (1986) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 No | 269,622 | 68.50% | ||
| Yes | 123,966 | 31.50% | ||
Election results via: West Virginia Secretary of State
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| To repeal section three, article nine of the State Constitution which provided that a person who had been elected or who had served as a sheriff for all or part of two consecutive terms was ineligible for the office of sheriff for the term following the second of two consecutive terms.[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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