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Certified ballot results on the left. What the people you elected did about them on the right.

MeasureThe voteWhat happenedStatus
Amendment 1 (2024)

Partisan election of district school board members

54.9%voted yes
BLOCKED

A majority said yes to partisan school board elections. The 60% rule said no.

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Amendment 3 (2024)

Adult personal use of marijuana

55.9%voted yes
BLOCKED

A majority said yes. Florida's 60% supermajority rule said no. The rule itself was added to the constitution in 2006.

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Amendment 4 (2024)

Limiting government interference with abortion

57.17%voted yes
BLOCKED

A majority said yes. The 60% rule said no.

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Amendment 6 (2024)

Repeal of public campaign financing requirement

50.39%voted yes
BLOCKED

A majority voted to repeal public campaign financing, for the second time since 2010. The 60% rule kept the requirement in place both times.

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Amendment 1 (2022)

Limitation on assessment of flood-resistant improvements

57.26%voted yes
BLOCKED

A majority said yes. The 60% rule said no.

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Amendment 2 (2022)

Abolishing the Constitution Revision Commission

53.87%voted yes
BLOCKED

A majority voted to abolish the Constitution Revision Commission. The 60% rule kept it.

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Amendment 3 (2022)

Additional homestead exemption for specified workers

58.68%voted yes
BLOCKED

A majority said yes to an additional homestead exemption for teachers, first responders, and other specified workers. The 60% rule said no.

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Amendment 2 (2020)

Minimum wage increase to fifteen dollars

60.82%voted yes
DELIVERED

60.82% said yes, the narrowest clearance of the 60% bar on record. A shift of fewer than 90,000 votes would have defeated it.

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Amendment 3 (2020)

Top-two open primaries

57.03%voted yes
BLOCKED

A majority said yes to open primaries. The 60% rule said no. Officials of both major parties had opposed the measure.

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Amendment 4 (2020)

Requiring amendments to pass in two elections

47.53%voted yes
REJECTED

A measure to require every future amendment to pass twice failed outright at 47.53%, without reaching a simple majority.

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Amendment 1 (2018)

Increased homestead property tax exemption

58.06%voted yes
BLOCKED

A majority said yes to an additional homestead exemption. The 60% rule said no.

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Amendment 4 (2018)

Voting rights restoration

64.55%voted yes
GUTTED

Voters restored voting rights to people who had completed felony sentences, clearing the 60% bar. The Legislature then conditioned those rights on paying fines and fees.

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Amendment 1 (2016)

Rights of electricity consumers regarding solar energy

50.79%voted yes
BLOCKED

A majority said yes. The 60% rule said no. This is one of the thirteen the threshold blocked, and not one its critics mourn.

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Amendment 2 (2016)

Medical marijuana for debilitating conditions

71.32%voted yes
DELIVERED

71.32% said yes, comfortably clearing the bar that had blocked the same idea in 2014.

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Amendment 2 (2014)

Medical marijuana for certain conditions

57.62%voted yes
BLOCKED

A majority said yes to medical marijuana. The 60% rule said no. Two years later the same idea cleared the bar.

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Amendment 1 (2010)

Repeal of public campaign financing requirement

52.49%voted yes
BLOCKED

A majority voted to repeal public campaign financing. The 60% rule kept the requirement in place.

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Amendment 5 (2010)

Fair districts, standards for legislative redistricting

62.59%voted yes
DEFIED

Voters banned maps drawn to favor a party, and cleared the 60% bar doing it. The Legislature drew them anyway.

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Amendment 6 (2010)

Fair districts, standards for congressional redistricting

62.93%voted yes
DEFIED

Voters banned maps drawn to favor a party, and cleared the 60% bar doing it. The Legislature drew them anyway.

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Amendment 8 (2010)

Revision of class size requirements

54.49%voted yes
BLOCKED

A majority voted to loosen the class size limits voters had approved in 2002. The 60% rule left the limits in place.

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Amendment 3 (2006)

60 percent approval requirement for constitutional amendments

57.78%voted yes
DELIVERED

Voters approved the 60% threshold itself with 57.78% support, less than the bar it created. It took effect as Article XI, Section 5(e).

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Verified

Every row links to certified results and primary documents. Status chips show where each claim sits in our verification pipeline. Rows marked pending are exactly what they say, and rows showing no percentage have no certified figure attached yet. Every figure here comes from the Florida Division of Elections; see sources and method.

In progress. The full table, 2010 to present, with per-row filtering by outcome and year, arrives as measures clear verification.