Ballot measures · November 3, 2026

Rhode Island

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

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: Higher Education Facilities1,2,3
    Referred by the legislature · Bond · To pass: a majority of the votes on it
  • Question 2: Housing and Homeownership1,2,3
    Referred by the legislature · Bond · To pass: a majority of the votes on it
  • Question 3: Economic Development1,2,3
    Referred by the legislature · Bond · To pass: a majority of the votes on it
  • Question 4: Cultural Economy1,2,3
    Referred by the legislature · Bond · To pass: a majority of the votes on it
  • Question 5: Green Economy Bonds1,2,3
    Referred by the legislature · Bond · 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 Department of State's 2026 Voter Information Handbook (vote.sos.ri.gov/Forms/Elections/Guides/VoterRef26.pdf) and its sample ballots could not be read: vote.sos.ri.gov answered with a Cloudflare human-verification page, and so did the Board of Elections site (elections.ri.gov) and the Department of Environmental Management's 2026 green bond page (dem.ri.gov). We stopped using those sites.
  • Because the handbook and sample ballots were unreadable, the question numbers are not read from an election-office list. The Department of State's release confirms there are five statewide bond questions, the Town of Barrington's election notice says the five statewide questions appear as Questions #1 through #5, and the enacted act lists the five projects as items (1) to (5) in the order used here. A reviewer should confirm each number, and the exact ballot label wording, against the handbook or a sample ballot.
  • Titles are the project names in the enacted act (Article 5, Section 1). The printed ballot labels, which the Secretary of State prepares under Section 2, may word them differently; we could not check.
  • No source we could read calls the list of questions certified or final, so the list is not marked certified.
  • We saw a 2026 Senate joint resolution (S 3021) that proposed a constitutional amendment on state borrowing for the next general election. The Department of State's release counts only five statewide questions, all bond questions, so it is not on the November 3 ballot; we did not check its legislative history.