====== N.D. Const. art. IV, § 26 — Research ======

**Repealed.** Text of the section: [[.:start|current and prior versions]].

Every citing reference in the corpus: **8** court opinions and **5** Attorney General opinions. Counts include the section's pre-1981 designation (§ 47), era-gated by the renumbering crosswalk.

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== Exclusive power of each house over election returns ==

  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/61-140.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 61-140 (1961)]]
  * State ex rel. Andrews v. Quam, County Auditor, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/3933643/state-ex-rel-andrews-v-quam/|1943 ND 4]] (1943, Burr, J.)
  * State ex rel. Wattam v. Poindexter, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/6851095/state-ex-rel-wattam-v-poindexter/|1921 ND 68]] (1921, Birdzell, J.)

== Court jurisdiction over legislative election contests ==

  * Morgan v. Hatch, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1861161/morgan-v-hatch/|1979 ND 1]] (1979, VandeWalle, J.)
  * Kuhn v. Beede, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1722665/kuhn-v-beede/|1976 ND 119]] (1976, Paulson, J.)
  * State ex rel. Schmeding v. District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/3933831/state-ex-rel-schmeding-v-district-court-of-the-sixth-judicial-district/|1937 ND 7]] (1937, Burke, J.)
  * Leu v. Montgomery, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/6849736/leu-v-montgomery/|1914 ND 109]] (1914, Fisk, J.)

== Primary elections distinguished ==

  * Walton v. Olson, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/6850460/walton-v-olson/|1918 ND 116]] (1918, Christianson, J.)  ·  construes
    * //“…%%ll election. * * * And the case at bar is exactly parallel with the one above assumed." In Leu v. Montgomery, 31 N. D. 1, 5, 148 N. W. 662, 663, this court said: "But a primary election is not an election within the meaning of such constitutional provision [section 47 of the state Constitution, which provides that each house of the Legislature shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members], nor within the common acceptation of the term. It merely ta%%…”//
  * State ex rel. Williams v. Meyer, [[https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/6848935/state-ex-rel-williams-v-meyer/|1910 ND 105]] (1910, Spalding, J.)

== Qualifications of members and dual office holding ==

  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/060686-Mahoney_0.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. (June 6, 1986) (to Mahoney)]]
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/70-194.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 70-194 (1970)]]
  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/67-50.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 67-50 (1967)]]

== Other applications ==

  * N.D. Att'y Gen.: [[https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/49-104.pdf|N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 49-104 (1949)]]

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