N.D. Const. art. V, § 3 — Research
Election of governor and lieutenant governor. Text of the section: current and prior versions.
Every citing reference in the corpus: 6 court opinions and 3 Attorney General opinions. Counts include the section's pre-1981 designation (§ 73), era-gated by the renumbering crosswalk.
Generated from the citation graph of the validated corpus. Treatment groupings (construing / citing / recital) are heuristic reading aids, not editorial judgments — read the opinion before relying on any signal.
Cases by topic
Topics are machine-generated groupings of the citing references — reading aids, not editorial judgments. Documents cited after the last classification pass appear in the lists below until the next pass.
Eligibility and residency of candidates for governor
- N.D. Att'y Gen.: N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 2019-L-07 (2019)
- State ex rel. Graham v. Hall, Secretary of State, 1944 ND 30 (1944, Morris, J.) · construes
- “…rutz as a candidate for governor, in his brief he states specifically: 'It is to be noted that the Legislature used unequivocal language in the statute: 'shall not be eligible as a candidate * * *' If the Legislature set out purposely to have a collision with Section 73 of the constitution and other constitutional provisions fixing the [*430] qualifications of constitutional officers, they could not have done a better job of it; consequently, this Court should state in plain language t…”
- State ex rel. Sathre, Atty. Gen., v. Moodie, 1935 ND 5 (1935, Burke, J.)
- State ex rel. Sathre, Atty. Gen., v. Byrne, Secretary of State, 1934 ND 92 (1934, Burr, J.)
Joint ballot for governor and lieutenant governor
- Sorum v. Dalrymple, et al., 2014 ND 233 (2014, Sandstrom, J.) · construes
- ¶ 12: “…The opinion noted the North Dakota Constitution requires candidates for governor and lieutenant governor to be listed together and to be elected on a joint ballot. N.D. Att'y Gen. Op. 2012-L-07, 4 (citing N.D. Const. art. V, § 3). In *Riemers,* we stated, "The Attorney General's interpretation of the mandatory constitutional requirement of N.D. Const. art. V, § 3 is persuasive, and the Secretary of State correctly applied that opinion." 2013…”
- N.D. Att'y Gen.: N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 2012-L-07 (2012)
Succession and devolution of the governor's powers
- State ex rel. Olson v. Langer, 1934 ND 67 (1934, Burke, J.)
Other applications
- N.D. Att'y Gen.: N.D. Op. Att'y Gen. 80-93 (1980)
- State ex rel. Agnew v. Schneider, 1977 ND 50 (1977, Sand, J.)
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