2026 Ballot Measures

The most closely watched statewide questions on the November 3, 2026 ballot, and what a Yes or No vote does.

Last reviewed: October 2026. On election night we'll add each result here as it's called.

Besides candidates, voters in 39 states will decide 145 statewide ballot measures on November 3, 2026, according to Ballotpedia. Below are some of the most closely watched, grouped by topic. A Yes vote approves the change described; a No vote keeps current law unless noted otherwise. Your official state voter guide has the exact ballot wording; see how to vote for links to every state.

On this page: Elections and voting · Abortion, sex and gender · Taxes · Housing and energy · Rights and discrimination · Guns, crime and marijuana · Sources

Elections and voting

• California Proposition 39: Yes would require voter ID and citizenship verification and change how voter lists are maintained.
• Nevada Question 7: Yes would put a voter ID requirement in the state constitution.
• Alaska Ballot Measure 3: Yes would add to state law that only U.S. citizens may vote.
• Alaska Ballot Measure 2: Yes would repeal Alaska's top-four open primary and ranked-choice general elections; No keeps them.
• Virginia Question 3: Yes would restore voting rights automatically to people with felony convictions once they finish their prison sentence.
• Missouri Proposition A: a referendum on the congressional map the legislature drew in 2025. Yes keeps the new map; No rejects it.
• Maryland Question 3: Yes would say the state constitution sets no criteria for congressional districts, giving lawmakers more freedom to redraw them.
• Colorado Amendment 86: Yes would require a nonpolitical commission and the state supreme court to approve any congressional map redrawn in the middle of the decade.
• North Dakota Constitutional Measure 1 and South Dakota Constitutional Amendment L: Yes would require 60% of the vote, instead of a simple majority, to amend the state constitution.
• Missouri Amendment 6: Yes would protect current petition and qualification rules for citizen initiatives and limit how the legislature can change them.
• Massachusetts Question 3: Yes would replace party primaries for state offices with a single primary open to all candidates, with the top two advancing.
• Montana I-194: Yes would bar corporations and other "artificial persons" from spending on candidates, ballot measures or parties.

Abortion, sex and gender

• Virginia Question 1: Yes would add a right to reproductive freedom, including abortion, to the state constitution.
• Nevada Question 6: Yes would give final approval to a right to abortion in the state constitution (voters approved it once, in 2024).
• Idaho Proposition 1: Yes would create a statutory right to abortion, reversing most of Idaho's current ban.
• Missouri Amendment 3: Yes would repeal the abortion-rights amendment voters passed in 2024, allow abortion only in limited circumstances, and ban gender-transition treatments for minors. No keeps the 2024 amendment.
• Colorado Proposition 135: Yes would ban certain gender-transition surgeries for minors.
• Colorado Proposition 134, Nebraska Initiative Measure 442 and Washington Initiative 638: Yes would set sex-based eligibility rules for girls' and women's school and college sports.
• Arizona Proposition 318: Yes would limit school sports participation and access to restrooms and locker rooms based on sex.
• Washington Initiative 1: Yes would give parents rights to review school materials, receive notices and opt their children out of sexual-health education.

Taxes

• California Proposition 40: Yes would levy a one-time 5% tax on fortunes over $1 billion to fund health care, food assistance and education. Propositions 41 and 42 compete with it: if either passes with more votes, it could block the wealth tax.
• Colorado Proposition 136: Yes would cap state income tax rates at 4.4%. Colorado Amendment 87 would instead create a graduated income tax, with higher rates on higher incomes, for schools, health care and child care.
• Washington Initiative 645: Yes would repeal the state's tax on household income over $1 million and bar state and local income taxes.
• Florida Amendment 3: Yes would raise the homestead exemption from non-school property taxes, to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028, with limits on local spending.

Housing and energy

• California Proposition 45: Yes would speed up environmental review for certain projects, including housing.
• Massachusetts Question 7: Yes would limit how large a lot towns can require for single-family homes.
• Colorado Amendment 82: Yes would create a constitutional right to buy and sell natural gas for cooking and heating.

Rights and discrimination

• Virginia Question 2: Yes would remove the state constitution's ban on same-sex marriage and bar denying marriage licenses based on sex, gender or race.
• Vermont Proposal 4: Yes would add equal protection to the state constitution, including for sexual orientation and gender identity.
• Wisconsin Question 3 and Arizona Proposition 142: Yes would bar government preferences or discrimination based on race or ethnicity (and, in Wisconsin, sex and national origin).
• Wisconsin Question 2: Yes would bar the government from closing places of worship during emergencies.

Guns, crime and marijuana

• Arkansas Issue 2: Yes would declare the right to keep and bear arms a fundamental individual right in the state constitution.
• Massachusetts Question 9: a referendum on the state's 2024 gun law. Yes keeps the law; No repeals it.
• Tennessee Amendment 1: Yes would let courts deny bail in more kinds of cases.
• Massachusetts Question 8: Yes would end recreational marijuana sales while still allowing limited possession.

Sources

• Ballotpedia, 2026 ballot measures and top 50 measures to watch (October 2026)
• Your state's official voter guide (find it through vote.gov)

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