New Mexico Ballot Proposal: Limit Terms of State Officers (1986)

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The New Mexico Ballot Proposal: Limit Terms of State Officers, also known as Constitutional Amendment No. 11, was on the ballot in New Mexico on November 4, 1986, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The ballot proposal limited state executive officers to two consecutive four-year terms to start on January 1, 1991.[1]

Election results

New Mexico Constitutional Amendment No. 11 (1986)
ResultVotesPercentage
Approveda Yes168,85061.43%
No106,01338.57%

Election results via: New Mexico Secretary of State

Text of measure

The question on the ballot:

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 11: Proposing an amendment to Article 5, Section 1 of the Constitution of New Mexico to limit state executive officers to two consecutive four-year terms in a state office for terms beginning January 1, 1991.[2]

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Footnotes

  1. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, "Part 43: Referenda Elections for New Mexico," accessed August 5, 2015
  2. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.