Ballot questions 2026 results: From Marijuana, abortion rights, transgender athletes, to voter ID -- all polls verdicts are out

US Midterm election results are out and American electorates have given resounding mandate for both the Senate and House of Representatives and a major blow to Donald Trump's Presidency. Apart from Senate, House, and Governor races, midterm ballots featured a number of much-talked about issues, including some controversial ones. There were as many as 45 ballot questions in more than three dozen states.

Massachusetts ballot questions 2026 results are out and voters have rejected midterm elections attempt to repeal the legalization of Marijuana. Question 8 on Massachusetts ballot had provisions to eliminate state's billion dollar Marijuana industry. Over 75 per cent of voters answered in negative to Question 8.

Abortion rights have been prevailed in multiple states. Voters defeated a proposed amendment to Missouri's constitution that would have reimposed restrictions on most abortions. The vote Tuesday essentially reaffirmed voters' decision from two years ago, when they became the first in the nation to undo an existing abortion ban by approving an abortion-rights amendment.


In Virginia, a voter-approved measure creates a "fundamental right to reproductive freedom" in the state constitution, ensuring that abortions can occur during the first two trimesters of pregnancy. The amendment also creates a right to contraception and fertility care, among other things.

An amendment approved in Nevada creates a fundamental right to abortion until fetal viability, which is generally considered after 21 weeks of pregnancy. The amendment won initial voter approval in 2024 but needed a second vote this year to add it to the constitution.

But voters in Republican-leaning Idaho on Tuesday defeated a ballot measure that would have created abortion rights in state law. Current Idaho law bans abortions unless necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman, or during the first trimester of pregnancy in cases where rape or incest has been reported to law enforcement.

Voters in Colorado and Washington also were considering measures restricting transgender athletes or medical procedures. That comes as Trump’s administration has been pushing for restrictions impacting transgender people, especially youth.

Most Republican-led states already bar transgender women and girls from female school sports teams. In the Democratic-led states of Colorado and Washington, the measures were placed on the ballot by citizen initiatives. A second ballot question in Colorado would ban some transgender medical treatments for minors.

Opponents in California successfully campaigned against the amendment by linking it to Trump. The defeated California measure would have required a government-issued ID to vote in person or the last four digits of that identification number to vote by mail. The vast majority of California’s ballots are cast by mail.

Colorado voters also defeated a measure that would have required people voting by mail to include the last four digits of a government-issued identification number.

In Ohio and North Carolina, Republican-led legislatures referred measures to the ballot enhancing existing voter ID requirements by placing them in the state constitution. The measures passed in both states. A voter ID amendment also passed in Nevada.

North Dakota and South Dakota voters defeated ballot measures that would have made it harder to amend the state constitutions by requiring 60% approval from voters instead of a simple majority. And Utah voters defeated a measure that would have required a 60 per cent threshold to pass citizen initiatives that raise taxes.

Meanwhile, Missouri voters passed an amendment that would make it harder for lawmakers to change voter-approved citizen initiatives by requiring revisions to get an 80 per cent vote in the state House and Senate.

Voters in Arkansas, Kansas, South Dakota and West Virginia approved constitutional amendments reinforcing current election practices limiting voting to U.S. citizens. In Alaska, voters approved a citizen voting ballot question as state law.