Ballot measures · November 3, 2026

Michigan

2 statewide measures on Michigan's November 3, 2026 ballot, in the order the state lists them.1,2,3,4,5

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

  • Proposal 2026-1: A proposal to convene a constitutional convention for the purpose of drafting a general revision of the state constitution1,3,4,6,7
    Other · Other · To pass: a majority of the votes on it
  • Proposal 2026-21,2,3,5,8,9
    Citizen initiative · State law · To pass: a majority of the votes on it

§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 Board of State Canvassers' signed minutes for July 24 and August 24, 2026, read on michigan.gov on a slower re-check on 2026-10-27, record the numbering of both proposals and the Board's 2-2 split on a third petition. We did not find a Department of State page that lists the November proposals, and we did not read the circulated petition text, so the list also still rests on Oakland County's Official Proposal List and the fiscal agencies' analyses.
  • The list of statewide proposals comes from the Oakland County Clerk's Official Proposal List for November 3, 2026 (updated September 9, 2026), which has a State of Michigan section with exactly two proposals, and from the House and Senate Fiscal Agency analyses, which each cover the same two. The county list calls itself official, and the House Fiscal Agency calls the wording the official ballot language, but neither says the list is certified or final, so the list is not marked certified.
  • The ballot wording prints the designations as Proposal 2026-1 and Proposal 2026-2, which we used. The House and Senate Fiscal Agencies also use the short forms Proposal 26-1 and Proposal 26-2, and news coverage calls them Proposal 1 and Proposal 2.
  • Proposal 2026-2 has an official caption, but it is longer than the 200 characters the title field allows, so title is left out for that measure.
  • Kent County's candidates-and-proposals PDF (kentcountymi.gov) and a City of Detroit election newsletter (detroitmi.gov) were blocked by a security check, so we did not use them.
  • The Board's August 24 minutes show it split 2 to 2 on the petition for a constitutional amendment sponsored by Americans for Citizen Voting - Michigan (which its September 4 agenda summarizes as requiring citizenship verification for registered voters) and numbered it Proposal 2026-02 only in case it reached the ballot; news coverage, used only as a pointer, says it then lost at the Michigan Supreme Court. It is not on the official county list and is not listed here. A ranked-choice voting amendment was circulated but appears on no official list we read.