North Dakota Gubernatorial Recall Election

North Dakota Gubernatorial Recall Election

State government
Gubernatorial elections

1921 · 2000 · 2004 · 2008 · 2012

Other elections

2006

Ballot measures
2004

Constitutional Measure 1

The North Dakota recall election was a recall election of North Dakota Governor Lynn Frazier in 1921. Frazier was the first American governor ever successfully recalled from office; there would not be another successful recall of a governor until California Governor Gray Davis was recalled in 2003. In 2012, Scott Walker of Wisconsin was the third US Governor to be recalled, and the first to survive a recall vote.

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