States That Have Voted On Amendments
- See List of U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions by type for a more detailed list.
The following table shows all popular vote results on state constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage, or, in the case of Hawaii, granting the legislature authority to ban same-sex marriage.
| State | Date | Yes vote | No vote | Final outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West: | |||||
| Alaska | 1998 | 68% (152,965) | 32% (71,631) | Yes | |
| Hawaii | 1998 | 69% (285,384) | 31% (117,827) | Yes | |
| Nevada | 2002 | 67% (337,183) | 33% (164,555) | Yes | |
| Montana | 2004 | 67% (295,070) | 33% (148,263) | Yes | |
| Oregon | 2004 | 57% (1,028,546) | 43% (787,556) | Yes | |
| Utah | 2004 | 66% (593,297) | 34% (307,488) | Yes | |
| Arizona | 2006 | 48% (574,332) | 52% (607,769) | No | |
| Colorado | 2006 | 56% (865,126) | 44% (674,030) | Yes | |
| Idaho | 2006 | 63% (282,301) | 37% (163,408) | Yes | |
| Arizona | 2008 | 56% (1,077,055) | 44% (834,083) | Yes | |
| California | 2008 | 52% (5,387,939) | 48% (4,883,460) | Yes | |
| Midwest: | |||||
| Nebraska | 2000 | 70% (450,073) | 30% (189,555) | Yes | |
| Missouri | 2004 | 71% (1,055,771) | 29% (439,529) | Yes | |
| Michigan | 2004 | 59% (2,698,077) | 41% (1,904,319) | Yes | |
| North Dakota | 2004 | 73% (223,572) | 27% (81,716) | Yes | |
| Ohio | 2004 | 62% (3,329,335) | 38% (2,065,462) | Yes | |
| Oklahoma | 2004 | 76% (1,075,216) | 24% (347,303) | Yes | |
| Kansas | 2005 | 70% (414,106) | 30% (178,018) | Yes | |
| South Dakota | 2006 | 52% (172,242) | 48% (160,173) | Yes | |
| Wisconsin | 2006 | 59% (1,260,554) | 41% (861,554) | Yes | |
| Minnesota | 2012 | 47% (1,399,938) | 53% (1,550,844) | No | |
| South: | |||||
| Louisiana | 2004 | 78% (618,928) | 22% (177,103) | Yes | |
| Arkansas | 2004 | 75% (753,770) | 25% (251,914) | Yes | |
| Georgia | 2004 | 76% (2,454,912) | 24% (768,703) | Yes | |
| Kentucky | 2004 | 75% (1,222,125) | 25% (417,097) | Yes | |
| Mississippi | 2004 | 86% (957,104) | 14% (155,648) | Yes | |
| Texas | 2005 | 76% (1,718,513) | 24% (536,052) | Yes | |
| Alabama | 2006 | 81% (734,746) | 19% (170,399) | Yes | |
| South Carolina | 2006 | 78% (825,766) | 22% (232,978) | Yes | |
| Tennessee | 2006 | 81% (1,419,434) | 19% (327,536) | Yes | |
| Virginia | 2006 | 57% (1,328,134) | 43% (998,483) | Yes | |
| Florida | 2008 | 62% (4,645,602) | 38% (2,833,052) | Yes | |
| North Carolina | 2012 | 61% (1,317,976) | 39% (829,823) | Yes | |
Read more about this topic: U.S. State Constitutional Amendments Banning Same-sex Unions
Famous quotes containing the words states that, states, voted and/or amendments:
“States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.”
—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
“Not only [are] our states ... making peace with each other,... you and I, your Majesty, are making peace here, our own peace, the peace of soldiers and the peace of friends.”
—Yitzhak Rabin (b. 1922)
“It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.”
—Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)
“Both of us felt more anxiety about the South—about the colored people especially—than about anything else sinister in the result. My hope of a sound currency will somehow be realized; civil service reform will be delayed; but the great injury is in the South. There the Amendments will be nullified, disorder will continue, prosperity to both whites and colored people will be pushed off for years.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)