South Dakota 1980 ballot measures

1982 →

← 1978

In 1980, voters decided on seven statewide ballot measures in South Dakota on November 4.

• Three of the measures were legislatively referred constitutional amendments.
• Two of the measures were initiated constitutional amendments.
• One of the measures was an indirect initiated state statute.
• Voters approved three (43%) and rejected four (57%) measures.

On the ballot

November 4, 1980

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment A	Judiciary	Revise appointment of Supreme Court Justices and circuit court judges	a	158,490 (54%)	135,062 (46%)
CICA	Amendment B	Property taxes	Limit property tax increases		113,863 (37%)	192,116 (63%)
CICA	Amendment C	Initiative process; Legislature	Limit the Legislature’s power to alter voter-initiated laws		126,181 (47%)	140,632 (53%)
LRCA	Amendment D	Initiative process; Legislature	Prohibit the Legislature from amending or repealing initiated or referred laws approved by the voters for seven years after the effective date of the law without two-thirds majority vote of each house of the Legislature		77,225 (35%)	140,406 (65%)
LRCA	Amendment E	Legislative processes	Change the legislative session lengths to alternate between forty and thirty-five days, and establish the start date to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January	a	156,630 (56%)	120,703 (44%)
IndISS	Initiative 1	Mineral resources; Nuclear energy	Prohibit new uranium mining, nuclear waste storage, and nuclear power plant construction in South Dakota unless approved by both the State Department of Water and Natural Resources and a majority of state voters		146,381 (48%)	156,293 (52%)
VR	Referendum 1	Hunting	Allow the hunting of mourning doves	a	182,180 (58%)	129,478 (42%)

See also

• Laws governing the initiative process in South Dakota
• List of South Dakota ballot measures
• 1980 ballot measures

External links

• South Dakota Political Almanac, 1890-2012 Ballot Measure Results