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Michigan ballot · Nov. 3, 2026Checked Oct. 18, 2026

2 statewide measures on the ballot.

Two statewide proposals are on Michigan's Nov. 3, 2026 ballot. The Board of State Canvassers numbered the constitutional convention question Proposal 2026-1 and approved its wording on July 24, 2026. It found the Michiganders for Money Out of Politics initiative petition sufficient (3-1) on July 24 and designated it Proposal 2026-02 or 2026-03, depending on whether the Americans for Citizen Voting amendment qualified; that amendment did not (the Board deadlocked 2-2 on Aug. 24, and the Michigan Supreme Court denied the campaign's request on Sept. 3), so the initiative is Proposal 2026-2, which the Senate Fiscal Agency writes as Proposal 26-2. The Board writes the numbers as '2026-1' and '2026-2'; 'Proposal 26-1' and 'Proposal 26-2' follow the Senate Fiscal Agency's style.

Proposal 26-1 · Constitutional convention question (required by Mich. Const. art. XII, sec. 3)

A PROPOSAL TO CONVENE A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF DRAFTING A GENERAL REVISION OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION

Michigan's constitution puts this question to voters automatically every 16 years; a yes vote would start the process of electing one delegate from each state House and Senate district to meet and rewrite the constitution. Anything the convention produced would take effect only if voters approved it at a later election.

Passes with: simple majority of votes cast on the question.

Official ballot summary (the state’s text)

Official ballot wording as approved by the Board of State Canvassers on July 24, 2026: Proposal 2026-1 A PROPOSAL TO CONVENE A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF DRAFTING A GENERAL REVISION OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION Shall a convention of elected delegates be convened in 2027 to draft a general revision of the State Constitution for presentation to the state's voters for their approval or rejection? [ ] Yes [ ] No

Committees for and against

Sources: Board of State Canvassers, signed minutes of July 24, 2026 meeting (number designations; Proposal 2026-1 wording; MMOP petition sufficiency) (saved: raw/bsc-minutes-20260724-signed-2026-10-18.pdf); Full text.

Proposal 26-2 · Initiated law (amends the Michigan Campaign Finance Act)

A PROPOSED INITIATED LAW TO PROHIBIT CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CERTAIN REGULATED UTILITIES AND GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS AND APPLY CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS AND REGULATIONS TO ADDITIONAL TYPES OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS

This citizen-initiated law would bar state-regulated electric and gas utilities, businesses holding more than $250,000 a year in government contracts, and people and groups closely tied to them from giving to the candidates, officeholders and party committees whose decisions affect them. It would also bring more political advertising under the state's spending and donor-disclosure rules, including ads that name a candidate or ballot question without explicitly urging a vote, and would spell out that paid-for-by disclosure applies online.

Passes with: simple majority of votes cast on the proposal.

Official ballot summary (the state’s text)

Official ballot wording as approved by the Board of State Canvassers on Aug. 17, 2026 (Director of Elections draft with the caption change adopted by the Board), as printed in the Board's signed minutes: A PROPOSED INITIATED LAW TO PROHIBIT CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CERTAIN REGULATED UTILITIES AND GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS AND APPLY CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS AND REGULATIONS TO ADDITIONAL TYPES OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS The proposal would: • Prohibit regulated electric and gas utilities, contractors with over $250,000 annually in government contracts, and people and organizations with substantial connections to these utilities/contractors from making direct or indirect campaign contributions to those who run for or hold offices that impact them, • Expand laws regulating spending on political communications, including those requiring disclosing donor information, to apply to communications clearly identifying candidates or ballot questions, even if they do not expressly advocate voting for/against them. • Expressly apply the law requiring disclosure of who paid for political communications to internet political communications. Should this proposal be adopted? [ ] YES [ ] NO

Committees for and against

Court challenges

Sources: Board of State Canvassers, signed minutes of Aug. 17, 2026 meeting (MMOP ballot wording adopted) (saved: raw/bsc-minutes-20260817-signed-2026-10-18.pdf); Full text.

What is not here yet

  • No single michigan.gov page listing the certified Nov. 3, 2026 statewide proposals with final wording was found; official wording is taken from the Board of State Canvassers' signed minutes (July 24 and Aug. 17, 2026). The printed ballot itself was not checked.
  • Proposal 26-2 wording: the Aug. 17 signed minutes end the first bullet with a comma ('impact them,') where the draft agenda had a period, and the motion text paraphrases the caption as 'campaign finance law and regulations'; the caption block printed in the minutes is used here. The Senate Fiscal Agency's overview prints 'Expand laws governing' where the minutes say 'Expand laws regulating'; the minutes are used.
  • No Board record was found that formally renumbers the initiative as 2026-2 after the citizenship amendment failed; the number follows the Board's conditional July 24 designation and the Senate Fiscal Agency's overview.
  • Committees come from the state's MiTN committee search (statewide ballot question committees, 15 returned on Oct. 18, 2026) and each committee's own ballot-question entries; only committees whose entries can be tied to these proposals are listed. Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce Ballot Committee and Protect MI Free Speech describe the question only as 'Campaign Finance Initiative'; they are listed as opposing Proposal 26-2 because it is the only statewide campaign finance initiative of this cycle in the Board's petition status list.
  • Left out as ambiguous: Voters Not Politicians Ballot Committee (its state record lists 'Prop1' oppose and 'Prop 2' support without a year, and its itemized 2025-2026 expenditures name only the Americans for Citizen Voting amendment and 'Committee to Protect Voters Rights'); Voters Not Insiders ('Political Conventions to Voters', apparently about party conventions, not the constitutional convention). Protect MI Constitution From Special Interests is listed under Proposal 26-1 on the strength of its expenditure records (verifier, Oct. 18).
  • Committee money (raised, spent, cash on hand) is not in this file; it belongs to the campaign-finance layer and was not yet checked here.
  • Proposal 26-2 court challenge: case caption and docket number were not found in Michigan Supreme Court records from this workspace; status is from credited reporting (MIRS, Sept. 3, 2026; Michigan Public, Aug. 6 and Sept. 4, 2026).
  • Proposal 26-1: no court challenge was found in the reporting and records reviewed; a court-records search was not yet checked.
  • The full_text_url for Proposal 26-2 is the petition as filed with the Board (a scanned 6-page PDF: printer's affidavit, petition face with the summary, and the amended Michigan Campaign Finance Act text on the reverse). Its text could not be machine-extracted; the law text itself was not yet read line by line.
  • Michigan does not print an official fiscal statement on the ballot; fiscal_official is omitted. The Senate Fiscal Agency overviews include fiscal analysis but are not ballot text.
  • Official wording is reproduced from the Board's minutes with line breaks where the minutes break the caption from the question; no punctuation is added. The printed ballot itself was not checked.

Gaps in the ballot records as of the date checked.