Voters Approve Three Maryland Constitutional Amendments in 2026

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Maryland Voters Back All Three Constitutional Amendments, With Support Fading From 75 Percent to 60 Percent

The widest margin among the three questions on the ballot belonged to the first question. By 3:44 a.m. on November 4, 2026, with 1,967 of 1,979 election day precincts reporting, elections.maryland.gov reported that 1,302,513 voters had backed the Arbitration Reform for State Employees Act of 2026 against 438,202 opposed — a 74.83 percent to 25.17 percent landslide that marked the question as the clearest mandate of the night.

But that dominance did not hold across the ballot. Unofficial returns posted by elections.maryland.gov and mirrored on results.elections.maryland.gov show all three constitutional amendments passing, yet with steadily shrinking margins: 74.83 percent for Question 1, 66.80 percent for Question 2, and just 60.05 percent for Question 3. Every “For” tally carries the NR designation on the state’s results page, which denotes the winner of the election.

What makes this night worth studying is not just that all three amendments cleared the 50 percent threshold, but how differently voters weighed each one — and how the gap between early voters, mail-in voters, and Election Day voters shifts the story.

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Three Questions, Three Mandates of Different Sizes

Question 2, the Temporary Appointments on the Commission on Judicial Disabilities amendment, drew 1,167,267 votes in favor and 580,245 against. Question 3, covering Election Districts for the General Assembly and Representatives in Congress, attracted the most ballots of any question — 1,798,071 total votes — yet still produced the narrowest victory, with 1,079,738 in favor and 718,333 against.

Question Subject For Against For %
Question 1 Arbitration Reform for State Employees Act of 2026 1,302,513 438,202 74.83%
Question 2 Temporary Appointments, Commission on Judicial Disabilities 1,167,267 580,245 66.80%
Question 3 Election Districts – General Assembly and Congress 1,079,738 718,333 60.05%

The labor-related arbitration measure sailed through; the judicial commission housekeeping measure passed comfortably; the redistricting question survived by a 20-point margin — solid, but nowhere near a rout.

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Where the Votes Came From

The breakdown by voting method sharpens the contrast. On Question 3, Election Day voters split far more narrowly than the overall result suggests: 586,490 in favor against 456,883 opposed, a roughly 56-to-44 split, while early voters backed it 367,487 to 216,982 and mail-in voters supported it 125,761 to 44,468. In other words, the amendment’s weakest ground was the polling place on Election Day itself, and its strongest ground was the mail ballot.

Question 1 told the opposite story in intensity if not direction. Mail-in voters backed it 138,276 to 31,665, early voters 428,594 to 138,699, and Election Day voters 735,643 to 267,838. No voting channel came close to breaking against it.

Maryland Election Results: 11 p.m. update

The opposition, though, is not trivial. Nearly 718,000 Marylanders voted against the election districts amendment, and more than 580,000 rejected the judicial commission measure. On Question 3 alone, almost four in ten voters said no — a constituency large enough to keep the issue politically alive even after passage.

What Remains Open

These are unofficial numbers. Twelve precincts — 1,979 minus the 1,967 reporting — had not yet sent results as of the 3:44 a.m. refresh, and provisional ballots were still being counted in each race. The totals across the three questions also differ, from 1,740,715 votes cast on Question 1 to 1,798,071 on Question 3, meaning tens of thousands of voters skipped at least one question. The state’s results page, refreshed at 3:44:31 a.m., is the authoritative source for every figure above, and final certification will follow once the remaining precincts report.

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