N.D. Const. art. IV, § 26 — Research

Repealed. Text of the section: 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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Cases by topic

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Exclusive power of each house over election returns

N.D. Att'y Gen.: N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 61-140 (1961)
State ex rel. Andrews v. Quam, County Auditor, 1943 ND 4 (1943, Burr, J.)
State ex rel. Wattam v. Poindexter, 1921 ND 68 (1921, Birdzell, J.)

Court jurisdiction over legislative election contests

Morgan v. Hatch, 1979 ND 1 (1979, VandeWalle, J.)
Kuhn v. Beede, 1976 ND 119 (1976, Paulson, J.)
State ex rel. Schmeding v. District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, 1937 ND 7 (1937, Burke, J.)
Leu v. Montgomery, 1914 ND 109 (1914, Fisk, J.)

Primary elections distinguished

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, 1910 ND 105 (1910, Spalding, J.)

Qualifications of members and dual office holding

N.D. Att'y Gen.: N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. (June 6, 1986) (to Mahoney)
N.D. Att'y Gen.: N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 70-194 (1970)
N.D. Att'y Gen.: N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 67-50 (1967)

Other applications

N.D. Att'y Gen.: N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 49-104 (1949)

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