referendum

Johnson had prosecuted graft and civic corruption in San Francisco, and his progressive reforms gave California voters some of the very tools your ballot offers you today: the initiative, recall, referendum, and women’s suffrage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Voters approved the referendum in 2024 by nearly 30 points but must pass it again for it to take effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Rallies have been taking place across Serbia on Thursday, the final day of campaigning ahead of a snap election billed as a referendum on the country's future.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Some 60% of Quebecers voted to stay in Canada in a 1980 referendum, but the province returned to the polls in 1995.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

In 1897, two years after the Massachusetts referendum, the antis formed the New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

State referenda can be difficult to poll, but surveys say Maine on Tuesday might have a couple of squeakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

Berlin, Hamburg and the Ruhr region are also developing bids, with referenda to be held in 2026.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2025

The report acknowledges that any constitutional change is a long way off, and would likely require a combination of petitions, referenda and legislation by the Scottish and U.K. governments.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

Voting in most kind of referenda and elections has consistently declined since a high point in the 1970s.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2022

These two referenda virtually settled the question in New York, though for a time a compromise was adopted.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

The province of Quebec held two referendums on independence, in 1980 and 1995.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

They held two separation referendums, in 1980 and 1995, both of which were defeated by a close margin.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

McOsker said the change makes the number of signatures needed for referendums and voter initiatives consistent in the city charter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Public policy should provide honest information and good options, not turn parents’ choices into moral referendums.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

On the ballot in November 1867, the men in Kansas faced two referendums, one that deleted the word “white” from the description of voters and a second that deleted the word “male.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling