Ballot measures · November 3, 2026

Massachusetts

9 statewide measures on Massachusetts's November 3, 2026 ballot, in the order the state lists them.1,2

Research draftList not marked certified

Research draft. We gathered this from official sources on October 27, 2026: election offices, state laws and court records, each linked to its source. Separate reviewers checked a random sample of 48 facts from the ballot-measure research against the cited sources and found no errors. The rest hasn't been reviewed fact by fact yet, so check the linked source before relying on anything here.

§1On the ballot

  • Question 1: Expanding the Public Records Law1,2
    Citizen initiative · State law · To pass: more than one condition
  • Question 2: Collective Bargaining for CPCS Employees1,2
    Citizen initiative · State law · To pass: more than one condition
  • Question 3: State Primary Elections1,2
    Citizen initiative · State law · To pass: more than one condition
  • Question 4: Election Day Registration1,2
    Citizen initiative · State law · To pass: more than one condition
  • Question 5: State Revenue Limit & Rebate1,2
    Citizen initiative · State law · To pass: more than one condition
  • Question 6: Natural Resource Conservation Fund1,2
    Citizen initiative · State law · To pass: more than one condition
  • Question 7: Single Family Homes1,2
    Citizen initiative · State law · To pass: more than one condition
  • Question 8: Prohibit Retail Sale of Adult Recreational Use Marijuana1,2
    Citizen initiative · State law · To pass: more than one condition
  • Question 9: Firearms Regulation1,2
    Citizen referendum · State law · To pass: more than one condition

§2Where this list comes from

The list above comes from these official sources. Researched October 27, 2026.

None of them calls the list certified or final, so we don’t either.

§3Notes on the research

What the research couldn’t find or confirm, in its own plain words. Nothing is left out silently.

  • The Secretary of the Commonwealth's 2026 Information for Voters book and its online ballot questions page list nine statewide questions, but neither calls the list certified or final, so the list is not marked certified.
  • Partway through our research, sec.state.ma.us began answering requests with an Incapsula bot-check page (first seen on the Elections and Voting page), so we stopped using the site. We had already downloaded the Information for Voters PDF and the ballot questions page, but we could not look for a separate certification document or check sample ballots there.
  • Yes and no sentences are based on the Attorney General's summaries, the official vote-effect statements and the full texts in the Information for Voters book. We did not use the arguments for or against, which private parties wrote.
  • Question 9: the book does not name the law's chapter number in its summary, and we did not confirm from a separate official source whether the law took effect as an emergency law or after the petition; the vote rule we give for repeal is the same under either referendum section of the constitution.