Ballot measure · Virginia · November 3, 2026

Proposed Constitutional Amendment, Question 2

On Virginia's statewide ballot on November 3, 2026.1,2

Research draftReferred by the legislatureConstitutional amendment
How it got there
Referred by the legislature
Kind of measure
Constitutional amendment
To pass
A majority of the votes on it
Researched
October 27, 2026

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.

§1What your vote means

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

A yes vote

A yes vote would remove the constitution's language limiting marriage to one man and one woman and barring civil unions and similar legal statuses, and would instead bar the state from denying a marriage license to two adults because of their sex, gender or race and require it to recognize and treat equally any lawful marriage between two adults.1 Proposed Law; full text, Art. I, § 15-A

A no vote

A no vote would keep the constitution's language limiting marriage to one man and one woman and barring civil unions and similar legal statuses, which the official explanation says cannot now be enforced because of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision but would become enforceable again if that decision were overturned.1 Present Law

§2How it got on the ballot

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Referred by the legislature. The legislature voted to put it on the ballot.1,2

Constitutional amendment. It would change the state constitution.1,2

Amendments to the Virginia Constitution are proposed by the General Assembly, which must approve them at two sessions with a House of Delegates election in between before sending them to voters. This one would rewrite Section 15-A of Article I, the Bill of Rights.1,3

It is on Virginia's list of statewide measures for November 3, 2026.2,4 None of the official sources we read calls the list certified or final, so we don’t either. What we couldn't confirm about the list is in the notes on Virginia's measures.

§3What it needs to pass

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A majority of the votes on it. The amendment passes if a majority of those voting on it vote yes.3 Art. XII, § 1