U.S. State Constitutional Amendments Banning Same-sex Unions - States That Have Voted On Amendments

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

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Famous quotes containing the words states, voted and/or amendments:

    Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    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)