Prince George's County Facts


Prince George’s County is the only municipality in the Washington metro are that limits the number of years elected officials can hold office, however throughout the years, the debate of term limits always had a way of showing up on the ballot.

In 1992, Prince George’s County had a referendum about term limits: 52% (105,973) of the vote was in favor of term limits and 48% (97,640) was against it. Later, in 2000 Delegate Rushern Baker III (at the time) helped reintroduce it on the ballot but this time the referendum was asking to abolish term limits. For the county council’s term, 63% of the vote was against abolishing term limits and 36% was in favor of abolishing term limits. For the county executive’s term, 64% of the vote was against abolishing term limits and only 35% was in favor of it.



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