1921 North Dakota gubernatorial recall election

1921 North Dakota gubernatorial recall election

← 1920 October 28, 1921 1922 →
 
Nominee Ragnvald Nestos Lynn Frazier
Party Republican/IVA Nonpartisan League
Popular vote 111,425 107,332
Percentage 50.94% 49.06%

County results[1]

Nestos:      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%

Frazier:      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%      80-90%

Governor before election

Lynn Frazier
Non-Partisan League

Elected Governor

Ragnvald A. Nestos
Republican/IVA

The 1921 North Dakota gubernatorial recall election was a recall election of North Dakota Governor Lynn Frazier in 1921. Frazier was the first U.S. 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.

  1. ^ "Special Recall Election Oct. 28,1921" (PDF). North Dakota Secretary of State. October 28, 1921. Retrieved March 9, 2016.