{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-v-21","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Const. art. V, § 21","heading":"State elective executive officers; term, election.","body":"Sec. 21.\n\nThe governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and attorney general shall be elected for four-year terms at the general election in each alternate even-numbered year.\n\nThe lieutenant governor, secretary of state and attorney general shall be nominated by party conventions in a manner prescribed by law. In the general election one vote shall be cast jointly for the candidates for governor and lieutenant governor nominated by the same party.\n\nVacancies in the office of the secretary of state and attorney general shall be filled by appointment by the governor.","path":["Michigan Constitution","Article V"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-Article%20V%20%C2%A7%2021","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"bc1145d22526aaf905d100d855b2b2a9a57083f63f8a6353aaac911c2fc5ce9e","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-v-20","next":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-v-22","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}