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New Poll: 81% of North Dakota Voters Back Term Limit Amendment


September 14, 2022

For immediate release
September 14th, 2022
Contact: Scott Tillman
Phone: (231) 262-1167
New Poll: 81% of North Dakota Voters Back Term Limit Amendment

BISMARCK, ND – Eighty-one (81) percent of likely North Dakota voters support amending the State Constitution to add 8-year term limits for the legislature and governor, according to a new poll conducted by RMG Research for U.S. Term Limits. Only 13 percent of voters oppose the measure, which will appear on the statewide ballot in November as Initiated Constitutional Measure No. 1.

“This poll shows that North Dakotans are tired of business as usual and status quo politicians. Voters are excited to vote for 8-year term limits,” said Jared Hendrix, Chairman of North Dakota Term Limits. “Our citizens are saying that spending nearly a decade in Bismarck is long enough to make a difference, do public service, and pass the baton to someone else. Support for the people’s term limits measure is widespread across the political spectrum.”

The fresh polling comes on the heels of a 5-0 unanimous ruling by the North Dakota Supreme Court to keep the 8-year term limits amendment on the ballot. The state’s highest court held that the challenges to the measure, levied by Secretary of State Al Jaeger and Attorney General Drew Wrigley, were without merit.

In the same poll, respondents were asked if Attorney General Wrigley had abused his power by spending taxpayer dollars to investigate and threaten term limits supporters. As part of Wrigley’s investigation, one term limit supporter even had his home raided by law enforcement. According to the poll, 65% of voters say Wrigley has abused his power.

If passed, the term limits measure would make North Dakota the 37th state with term limits on its governor and the 16th state with term limits on its legislature. Rankings of all states’ fiscal health by George Mason University have shown that states with term limits perform better, on average, than states run by career politicians. Additionally, a study by Dr. Randy Holcombe in the Journal of Public Finance found that term limits have helped reduce wasteful spending in state budgets.

This RMG Poll of 500 likely midterm voters in North Dakota has a margin of error of +/- 4.5%. RMG Research is owned and operated by Scott Rasmussen.

CLICK HERE to view Poll Results including crosstabs.

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U.S. Term Limits is the largest grassroots term limits advocacy group in the country. We connect term limits supporters with their legislators and work to pass term limits on all elected officials, particularly on the U.S. Congress. Find out more at termlimits.org.

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