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The longest-serving North Dakota governor was William L. Guy (1961–1973), who served four terms, two being for a two-year term and two being for a four-year term, for a total of 12 years in office. John Hoeven holds the record as the second longest-serving North Dakota governor (2000–2010).
North Dakota Constitutional Measure 1 of 2022 is an amendment to the Constitution of North Dakota [1] that set term limits for the governors and the state legislators, to 2 4-year terms and 8 years, respectively. The measure applied limits only to the officials elected after 2023. It was approved by 63.43% of the voters. [2]
Dakota Territory was organized on March 2, 1861; [1] on November 2, 1889, it was split into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota. [2] The Constitution of North Dakota originally provided for the election of a governor and lieutenant governor every two years, which was changed to four years in 1964. [3] A limit of two terms was added in ...
North Dakota's next governor will take office in mid-December, weeks before the biennial Legislature convenes in January 2025. ... New term limits voters passed in 2022 mean no future governors ...
The current gubernatorial term ends and new term begins in January for most states and territories, two months after their election; in Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, and Kentucky, the term begins in December. [7] [8] Governors serve four-year terms in most states and all territories; New Hampshire and Vermont have two-year terms for their ...
“It’s been an issue in North Dakota, it’s been an issue nationally,” said measure chairman Jared Hendrix, who led a successful 2022 initiative that set term limits for North Dakota’s ...
Governor Doug Burgum was re-elected to a second term in 2020 with 65.8% of the vote. In the November 2022 elections, voters amended the North Dakota Constitution to place a limit of two, four-year terms for succeeding governors sworn into office after the amendment's effective date of January 1, 2023. [25]
The North Dakota state primary will be held Tuesday. The last polls close at 9 p.m. ET in the state’s westernmost counties, although polls in most of the state close at 8 p.m. ET.