FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Full results for Referendum Election posted online

The official tabulation of the votes cast for the Nov. 7, 2023 Referendum Election has been posted on the Secretary of State’s website.

The tabulation is available here, and was communicated to Gov. Janet Mills yesterday, Monday, Nov. 27. Gov. Mills has 10 days from yesterday to proclaim the results of the ballot questions.

There were 410,040 total ballots cast in the Referendum Election. The overall turnout was 37.2% of the citizen voting age population of 1,100,974, the 2021 1-year estimate of Maine’s citizen voting age population from the U.S. Census Bureau.
  
The final tallies were as follows:

Question 1			Question 2			Question 3			Question 4
YES	NO	BLANK	YES	NO	BLANK	YES	NO	BLANK	YES	NO	BLANK
260670	137478	11892	348781	55226	6033	122961	283401	3678	341574	63208	5258

Question 5			Question 6			Question 7			Question 8
YES	NO	BLANK	YES	NO	BLANK	YES	NO	BLANK	YES	NO	BLANK
227602	166876	15562	289818	107466	12756	122646	269699	17695	184063	211120	14857

The 2023 Citizen’s Guide to the Referendum Election, which includes the ballot questions and underlying legislation, is posted here.

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