List of New York ballot measures

This page provides a list of ballot measures that have appeared on the statewide ballot in New York.

List of ballot measures by year

Measures are listed in reverse-chronological order, with the most recent and upcoming elections appearing first. Tables include brief summaries, relevant topics, and the election results for each measure.

2025

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposal 1	Athletics and sports; Parks, land, and natural area conservation	Authorize the state to use up to 323 acres of forest preserve land at the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex	a	1,999,703 (52%)	1,850,582 (48%)

2024

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposal 1	LGBTQ issues; Sex and gender issues; Abortion policy; Constitutional rights; Race and ethnicity issues	Provide that people cannot be denied rights based on their "ethnicity, national origin, age, and disability" or "sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy"	a	4,757,097 (62%)	2,857,663 (38%)

2023

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposal 1	Debt limits; Public education funding	Remove the debt limitations in the New York Constitution from small city school districts	a	1,504,083 (64%)	833,758 (36%)
LRCA	Proposal 2	State and local government budgets, spending, and finance; Utility policy	Exclude indebtedness for the construction or reconstruction of sewage facilities contracted prior to 2034	a	1,582,382 (68%)	744,696 (32%)

2022

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
BI	Proposal 1	Bond issues; Environment	Issue $4.20 billion in bonds for projects related to the environment, natural resources, water infrastructure, and climate change mitigation	a	3,522,141 (68%)	1,686,300 (32%)

2021

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposal 1	Redistricting policy	Makes changes to the redistricting process in New York	d	1,361,043 (46%)	1,622,195 (54%)
LRCA	Proposal 2	Constitutional rights; Environment	Creates a state constitutional right to to clean water, clean air, and a healthful environment	a	2,129,051 (70%)	907,159 (30%)
LRCA	Proposal 3	Voter registration	Removes the 10-day-advance voter registration requirement	d	1,336,327 (44%)	1,721,811 (56%)
LRCA	Proposal 4	Absentee and mail voting	Authorizes the state legislature to pass a statute for no-excuse absentee voting	d	1,370,897 (45%)	1,677,580 (55%)
LRCA	Proposal 5	State judiciary	Increases the New York City Civil Court's jurisdiction over lawsuits involving claims from $25,000 to $50,000.	a	1,874,515 (64%)	1,051,803 (36%)

2017

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
ACCQ	Proposal 1	State constitutional conventions	d	594,820 (17%)	2,910,868 (83%)
LRCA	Proposal 2	Ethics rules and commissions; Public employee retirement funds	a	2,512,671 (73%)	922,195 (27%)
LRCA	Proposal 3	Parks, land, and natural area conservation	a	1,755,081 (52%)	1,600,167 (48%)

2014

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposal 1	Redistricting policy	The New York Redistricting Commission Amendment, Proposal 1 was on the November 4, 2014 ballot in the state of New York as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment, where it was approved. The measure was designed to create a redistricting commission to establish state senate, assembly and congressional districts	a	1,705,903 (58%)	1,252,213 (42%)
LRCA	Proposal 2	Open meetings and public information	The New York Electronic Bills Amendment, Proposal 2 was on the November 4, 2014 ballot in the state of New York as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment, where it was approved. The measure was designed to allow legislative bills to be distributed in an electronically written format rather than as paper copies.	a	2,329,959 (77%)	681,232 (23%)
BI	Proposal 3	Bond issues	The New York Bonds for School Technology Act, Proposal 3 was on the November 4, 2014 ballot in New York as a legislatively referred bond question, where it was approved. The measure authorized the state comptroller to issue and sell bonds up to the amount of $2 billion. The revenue received from the sale of such bonds are, according to the proposal, used for projects related to the following: :* Purchasing educational technology equipment and facilities, such as interactive whiteboards, computer servers, desktop and laptop computers, tablets and high-speed broadband or wireless internet. :* Constructing and modernizing facilities to accommodate pre-kindergarten programs and replacing classroom trailers with permanent instructional space. :* Installing high-tech security features in school buildings.	a	1,921,054 (62%)	1,180,581 (38%)

2013

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposal 1	Gambling policy	The New York Casino Gambling Amendment, Proposal 1, was on the November 5, 2013 ballot in New York as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved.	a	1,579,755 (57%)	1,186,275 (43%)
LRCA	Proposal 2	Veterans policy	The New York Civil Service Promotions for Disabled Veterans Amendment, Proposal 2, was on the November 5, 2013 ballot in New York as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was overwhelmingly approved.	a	2,173,484 (84%)	424,858 (16%)
LRCA	Proposal 3	State and local government budgets, spending, and finance	The New York Municipal Debt Limit Exemption for Sewage Improvements Amendment, Proposal 3, was on the November 5, 2013 ballot in New York as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved.	a	1,497,865 (62%)	907,731 (38%)
LRCA	Proposal 4	Property	The New York Township 40 Land Dispute Settlement Amendment, Proposal 4, was on the November 5, 2013 ballot in New York as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved.	a	1,744,371 (73%)	656,371 (27%)
LRCA	Proposal 5	Mineral resources	The New York Land Exchange With NYCO Minerals Amendment, Proposal 5, was on the November 5, 2013 ballot in New York as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved.	a	1,276,595 (53%)	1,122,055 (47%)
LRCA	Proposal 6	Age limits for officials	The New York Mandatory Judicial Retirement Age Amendment, Proposal 6, was on the November 5, 2013 ballot in New York as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated.	d	1,061,662 (42%)	1,476,646 (58%)

2009

November 3

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Public land policy; Forestry and timber	Authorize a six‑acre forest preserve land exchange with National Grid to install a 46 kV transmission line in St. Lawrence County.	a	968,505 (67%)	469,666 (33%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Prison work regulations	Authorize inmates to voluntarily work for nonprofit organizations.	a	998,829 (68%)	467,679 (32%)

2008

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Veterans policy; Public assistance programs	Eliminate the requirement that disabled veterans receive federal disability payments to qualify for civil service exam credit.	a	1,815,847 (78%)	506,652 (22%)

2007

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Water	Allow the state to convey one acre of forest preserve land to Long Lake for water‐supply wells in exchange for at least twelve acres of equal‐value land to be added to the preserve.	a	825,688 (75%)	281,497 (25%)

2005

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State and local government budgets, spending, and finance	Revise the state budget process by establishing contingency budgets and spending limits, authorizing multi‑appropriation bills and a fiscal stabilization reserve fund, requiring public budget estimates, and shortening the veto‑change period.	d	734,844 (35%)	1,368,120 (65%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Bond issues; Public transportation	Authorize a $2.9 billion transportation bond to rebuild and improve the state’s roads, bridges, transit systems, airports, waterways and related infrastructure.	a	1,215,769 (56%)	959,734 (44%)

2003

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Debt limits	Allow local governments to exclude sewage‑facility debt from their constitutional debt limits for an additional ten years.	a	839,208 (53%)	758,359 (47%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Debt limits	Eliminate small city school districts from the state’s general constitutional debt limit.	d	724,141 (46%)	855,567 (54%)

2001

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Constitutional wording changes	Revise the constitutional language to be gender‑neutral by updating masculine terms to include feminine or neutral forms.	a	983,858 (56%)	779,437 (44%)

2000

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
BI	Proposal 1	Public transportation; Bond issues	Authorize up to $3.8 billion in state bonds to fund improvements, preservation, and restoration of transportation infrastructure.	d	1,589,091 (48%)	1,752,700 (52%)

1999

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State judicial authority	Authorize temporarily assigning city court judges outside New York City to county, family or district courts.	a	825,371 (61%)	529,133 (39%)

1997

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State judicial authority	Increase the monetary jurisdiction limits of certain state courts.	d	1,074,603 (44%)	1,359,910 (56%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Veterans policy	Clarify eligibility for additional civil service exam credits for active‑duty service members who later qualify as wartime veterans.	a	1,663,611 (65%)	883,312 (35%)
BI	Proposal 3	Public education funding; Bond issues	Authorize the state to incur $2.4 billion in debt for school health and safety facility projects.	d	1,265,150 (47%)	1,430,830 (53%)
ACCQ	Question 1	State constitutional conventions	Call a constitutional convention to revise and amend the State Constitution.	d	929,415 (37%)	1,579,390 (63%)

1996

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
BI	Proposal 1	Parks, land, and natural area conservation; Bond issues	Authorize $1.75 billion in state debt for clean water, clean air, and environmental restoration projects.	a	2,286,063 (57%)	1,748,925 (43%)

1995

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State judicial authority	Increase the New York City Civil Court's jurisdiction over lawsuits involving claims from $25,000 to $50,000 and the district court’s jurisdiction from $15,000 to $50,000.	d	835,143 (50%)	846,112 (50%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Election administration and governance; Voting age policy; Voter registration; Residency voting requirements; Literacy, poll tax, and property voting requirements	Eliminate voter re-registration requirements and change qualifications and procedures for voter registration.	a	974,206 (57%)	731,999 (43%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Revenue allocation	Change the state’s borrowing practices by instituting planning hearings, allowing multiple bond questions, permitting capped revenue debt without referendum, and broadening emergency debt authority.	d	656,971 (39%)	1,024,492 (61%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Land use and development policy; Parks, land, and natural area conservation; Public land policy	Provide for the exchange of twelve acres of forest preserve for 144 acres and an easement to facilitate a public cemetery.	a	1,065,570 (64%)	594,787 (36%)

1990

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
BI	Proposal 1	Parks, land, and natural area conservation; Bond issues	Authorize $1.975 billion in state bonds for environmental preservation, enhancement, restoration, improvement, and stewardship.	d	1,330,942 (48%)	1,416,337 (52%)

1988

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
BI	Proposal 1	Public transportation; Bond issues	Authorize $3 billion in state bonds for construction, reconstruction, capacity improvements, replacement, reconditioning, and preservation of highways and bridges.	a	2,288,705 (55%)	1,846,042 (45%)

1987

November 3

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Civil service; Veterans policy	Provide civil service credits to lawful resident aliens who served in wartime and removing the residency-at-enlistment requirement for veterans.	a	1,219,180 (70%)	519,769 (30%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Athletics and sports; Parks, land, and natural area conservation	Increase ski-trail mileage and width on specified peaks, remove South Mountain’s ski-trail authorization, and align Whiteface’s facilities with other forest preserve ski areas.	a	881,350 (52%)	806,091 (48%)

1985

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Bond issues; Public economic investment policy	Increase the state's guaranty cap for Job Development Authority bonds to $600 million and authorize it to make loans up to 60 percent of project cost for business facility improvements.	a	1,426,326 (68%)	663,891 (32%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Tax and revenue administration	Incorporate federal law by reference into state and local tax statutes.	d	946,764 (49%)	999,056 (51%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	State judicial authority	Provide the Court of Appeals the power to answer certified questions of law from federal or other state courts.	a	1,249,238 (66%)	654,198 (34%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Bond issue requirements	Authorize municipalities and school districts to issue sinking fund bonds to finance their debt.	a	1,049,473 (54%)	885,424 (46%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Public education funding; Property taxes	Repeal the special real-estate tax limit on smaller school districts.	a	994,490 (50%)	982,430 (50%)

1984

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Local official term limits	Authorize the legislature to set three- or four-year terms for sheriffs and county clerks.	a	2,118,846 (67%)	1,020,593 (33%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Gambling policy	Authorize the legislature to adjust prize-limit restrictions for certain charitable games of chance.	a	1,803,103 (57%)	1,387,489 (43%)

1983

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 2	Local government finance and taxes; Utility policy	Permit the exclusion of sewage‐facility debt from local constitutional debt limits for obligations contracted between 1962 and 1994.	a	1,344,794 (52%)	1,241,760 (48%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Banking policy	Remove constitutional limits on capital stock and trustee interests of savings institutions.	a	1,617,862 (61%)	1,035,645 (39%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	State judicial authority; State judiciary oversight	Permit retired judges or justices to continue serving by appointment of the courts’ administrative board.	d	1,144,573 (44%)	1,466,970 (56%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	State judicial authority	Permit family court judges to be temporarily assigned to the supreme court in their home judicial department.	a	1,593,114 (62%)	990,426 (38%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Public land policy; Parks, land, and natural area conservation	Authorize the exchange of ten acres of state land and buildings for two hundred acres of wild forest land to preserve historic structures.	a	1,602,228 (63%)	951,970 (37%)
LRCA	Amendment 7	State judicial authority	Increase the New York City Civil Court's jurisdiction over lawsuits involving claims from $10,000 to $25,000	d	1,314,754 (44%)	1,645,322 (56%)
LRCA	Amendment 8	Land use and development policy	Authorize local governments to carry out public improvements and redevelopment projects.	a	1,387,876 (56%)	1,095,199 (44%)
BI	Proposal 1	Public transportation; Bond issues	Authoruze $1.25 billion in state bonds to renew and improve transportation infrastructure.	a	1,720,559 (53%)	1,521,386 (47%)

1981

November 3

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Public economic investment policy; Bond issues	Increase the state's bond guarantee limit from $150 million to $300 million for financing facilities that improve employment opportunities.	a	1,488,529 (60%)	973,704 (40%)
BI	Proposal 1	Prison and jail funding; Bond issues	Authorize $500 million in state debt to fund acquiring, constructing, rehabilitating, and equipping correctional facilities in New York.	d	1,272,672 (50%)	1,286,371 (50%)

1979

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Public economic investment policy	Increase the state loan guarantee limit for the Job Development Authority to finance industrial or manufacturing projects.	d	1,149,429 (47%)	1,277,476 (53%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Public land policy; Parks, land, and natural area conservation	Allow land exchanges in the state forest preserve for equal acreage in Hamilton County.	a	1,203,753 (51%)	1,170,181 (49%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	State legislative processes and sessions; Tax and revenue administration	Allow the legislature to incorporate federal tax laws into state tax law by reference without restating them in full.	d	1,009,232 (43%)	1,327,008 (57%)
BI	Proposal 1	Public transportation; Energy conservation and efficiency; Bond issues	Authorize $500 million in state bonds for transportation improvements to promote energy conservation.	a	1,491,964 (55%)	1,201,530 (45%)

1977

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State judicial selection; State judiciary structure	Create a judicial nominating commission and establish its process for selecting Court of Appeals judges.	a	1,508,258 (53%)	1,311,621 (47%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	State judiciary structure	Provide for the reorganization and governance of the administration of the Unified Court System.	d	1,551,190 (58%)	1,123,636 (42%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	State judiciary oversight	Establish a commission on judicial conduct and authorizing admonition, censure, removal or retirement of judges and justices.	a	1,729,357 (64%)	961,989 (36%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	State judicial authority	Expand the jurisdiction of town, village and city courts outside New York City.	d	1,195,211 (47%)	1,323,455 (53%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Public employee retirement funds	Increase pension benefits payable to widows and widowers of state retirees.	a	1,598,758 (57%)	1,200,116 (43%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Public education governance	Provide for the process for filling vacancies on boards of education.	a	1,281,541 (50%)	1,272,654 (50%)
LRCA	Amendment 7	Public economic investment policy; Bond issues	Increase the state’s guarantee cap from $150 million to $300 million for Job Development Authority bonds used to finance nonprofit industrial development.	d	1,239,333 (47%)	1,374,781 (53%)
LRCA	Amendment 8	Bond issues; Public economic investment policy	Authorize a state-chartered public corporation to provide and back loans for business construction, expansion, and equipment to boost job creation across the State.	a	1,399,211 (54%)	1,178,071 (46%)
BI	Proposition 1	Bond issues; Public economic investment policy	Authorize $750 million in state bonds to finance public capital projects aimed at promoting economic development.	d	1,067,589 (38%)	1,714,156 (62%)
ACCQ	Proposition 2	State constitutional conventions	Call a convention to revise and amend the Constitution.	d	1,126,902 (40%)	1,668,137 (60%)

1975

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Constitutional rights; Sex and gender issues	Provide that equality of rights under the law cannot be denied on account of sex	d	1,470,213 (43%)	1,950,993 (57%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Ethics rules and commissions; State judiciary oversight; State judiciary structure	Establish a commission on judicial conduct for oversight over judges	a	1,900,262 (63%)	1,110,515 (37%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	State judiciary structure	Amend Articles 6 and 7 of the state constitution to provide for the administration and financing of the Unified Court System of the State	d	1,424,628 (50%)	1,442,076 (50%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	State legislative processes and sessions	Allow the state legislature, by a two-thirds vote, to convene itself for sessions on extraordinary occasions	a	1,491,355 (52%)	1,362,912 (48%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Sewage and stormwater	Allow local governments to take on debt to provide for sewage and storm water facilities	d	1,307,681 (45%)	1,567,534 (55%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Public employee retirement funds; Income taxes	Allow municipalities (excluding New York City) with less than 125,000 inhabitants to exclude taxes on employee contributions to their pension, retirement, and social security liabilities	d	1,133,553 (40%)	1,730,389 (60%)
LRCA	Amendment 7	Gambling policy	Allow certain types of gambling for religious, charitable, and non-profit groups	a	1,497,217 (50%)	1,491,943 (50%)
BI	Proposal 1	Bond issues; Housing development funding	Authorize the issuance of $250 million in bonds for low-rent housing	d	1,110,419 (36%)	1,964,681 (64%)

1974

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
BI	Proposition 1	Bond issues; Railways	Authorize $250 million in bonds for the maintenance of the state's railways	a	1,763,022 (65%)	965,623 (35%)

1973

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Debt limits	Exclude certain indebtedness at the county, city, town or village level from January 1, 1962, to January 1, 1983	a	1,720,008 (55%)	1,414,813 (45%)
LRCA	Amendment 10	State judiciary structure	Abolish the Nassau County Court and transfer the judges to the state supreme court.	d	1,224,526 (44%)	1,538,447 (56%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Criminal trials; Jury rules	Let certain persons charged with felonies wave indictment by a grand jury	a	1,652,460 (54%)	1,424,437 (46%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Business regulations; Public economic investment policy	Expand the authority of the Legislature to loan state money to a public corporation	a	1,670,032 (53%)	1,458,628 (47%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Salaries of government officials; State judicial authority	Increase the salaries and terms of district court judges	d	1,388,134 (46%)	1,598,920 (54%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Corrections governance	Delete the provision in the Constitution that named the head of the department of correction as chairman of the state commission of correction	a	1,571,065 (55%)	1,309,625 (45%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	State judicial authority	Grant the family court jurisdiction over the custody of minors in habeas corpus cases	a	1,926,863 (64%)	1,086,998 (36%)
LRCA	Amendment 7	Parks, land, and natural area conservation	Provide for an increase in the size of land in the Adirondack and Catskill parks	a	1,751,102 (58%)	1,284,585 (42%)
LRCA	Amendment 8	Local government organization	Remove the rule that a new county can be formed only when its population is large enough to receive an Assembly seat	d	1,106,284 (39%)	1,755,331 (61%)
LRCA	Amendment 9	State judiciary structure	Authorize a retired judge to carry out the functions of their former court, and allow a retired surrogate judge to fulfill the responsibilities of a Supreme Court justice	d	1,010,357 (34%)	1,953,160 (66%)
BI	Proposition 1	Bond issues; Public transportation	Allow for $3.5 billion in debt for the maintenance of mass transportation	d	1,593,531 (42%)	2,210,907 (58%)

1972

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposed Amendment 1	State judicial selection; State judiciary structure; State legislative authority; County and municipal governance	Empower the state legislature to direct the election of district attorneys for every county once every three or four years	a	2,478,100 (60%)	1,673,627 (40%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment 2	State constitutional conventions; Constitutional wording changes; State legislative authority	Replace Article XIX of the state constitution to add new processes for passing amendments through the state legislature and constitutional conventions	d	1,546,784 (39%)	2,393,174 (61%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment 3	State judiciary structure; Constitutional wording changes	Increase the number of state judicial departments from four to five	d	1,675,316 (42%)	2,286,190 (58%)
BI	Proposition No. 1	Parks, land, and natural area conservation; Bond issues	Authorize issuing $1.15 billion in bonds to provide funding for the preservation of the state's environment	a	3,137,048 (67%)	1,545,795 (33%)

1971

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 1	Land use and development policy; State and local government budgets, spending, and finance; State legislative authority	Authorize the state legislature to establish community development programs	d	1,322,065 (35%)	2,414,805 (65%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 2	Utility policy; State and local government budgets, spending, and finance; Sewage and stormwater; Debt limits	Extend the ability of counties, cities, towns, or villages to exclude debt accrued from the development of sewage facilities from the debt limit by ten years	d	1,801,271 (49%)	1,876,683 (51%)
BI	Proposition 1	Bond issues; Environment	This proposition allowed for $1.5 billion in state debt for the preservation and improvement of the environment.	d	1,322,065 (35%)	2,414,805 (65%)

1970

November 3

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposition 1	Housing assistance programs	Increase the statewide limit on low‑rent housing and urban renewal subsidies by $20 million	d	1,424,590 (48%)	1,568,936 (52%)

1969

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Healthcare facility funding	Authorize the state or municipalities to lend their money or credit to corporations or associations for hospital and related health-care facilities.	a	2,813,705 (80%)	718,707 (20%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Bond issues	Increase the state’s guarantor cap and extend maturity for Job Development Authority bonds and notes.	a	2,286,519 (69%)	1,050,663 (31%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Parks, land, and natural area conservation	Establish a State Nature and Historical Preserve.	a	2,750,675 (81%)	656,763 (19%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Redistricting policy	Provide for the inclusion of non-citizens in the total population for legislative redistricting.	a	2,229,299 (70%)	960,452 (30%)

1967

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 1	Land use and development policy; Bond issues	Authorize the state to increase its bonds for job development from $50 million to $200 million	d	2,045,499 (46%)	2,388,676 (54%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 2	Land use and development policy; Parks, land, and natural area conservation; Athletics and sports	Allow the state to build and operate up to 30 miles of ski trails with facilities on specified forest‑preserve slopes	d	1,147,937 (27%)	3,153,389 (73%)
BI	Proposition 1	State and local government budgets, spending, and finance; Bond issues; Public transportation; Highways and bridges	Authorize issuing $2.5 billion in bonds for the development of state highways, mass transit, and airport facilities	a	2,795,577 (58%)	2,006,318 (42%)
CCRCA	Question No. 1	State constitution ratification	Adopt a new state constitution	d	1,327,999 (28%)	3,487,513 (72%)

1966

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
BI	Proposed Amendment No. 1	Bond issues; State legislative authority; Land use and development policy	Increase the maximum principal amount of bonds issued to public corporations for the development of industrial and manufacturing plants from $50 million to $75 million	d	1,854,074 (49%)	1,904,285 (51%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 10	Judicial term limits; State judiciary structure; State judicial selection	Allow the court of appeals to appoint retired judges from the same court to continue serving	d	1,777,447 (50%)	1,783,697 (50%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 11	State executive powers and duties; State judicial selection; State judiciary structure; Judicial term limits	Allow retired justices of the state supreme court that had served as a justice of any appellate court before the age of 70 to be eligible for a temporary appointment to the appellate division by the governor	a	1,801,288 (51%)	1,727,722 (49%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 2	State legislative authority	Authorize the state legislature to loan state funds for projects in any area of the state, instead of just areas where unemployment is a problem	a	2,007,131 (54%)	1,724,243 (46%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 3	Housing development funding; Debt limits	Permit the state legislature to authorize local governments to take on debt for low-income housing projects, up to a limit of two percent of the average full valuation of taxable real estate of the locality	d	1,666,381 (45%)	2,065,195 (55%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 4	Public assistance programs; State legislative authority	Empower the state legislature to provide for the education and support of programs for people with mental disabilities	a	2,960,248 (77%)	907,989 (23%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 5	Public employee retirement funds	Increase the pensions of widows of retired members of a teachers' retirement system of the state or of a subdivision of the state	a	2,228,190 (60%)	1,516,233 (40%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 6	Residency voting requirements	Allow citizens who are 21 years of age or older to vote if they have been a resident of the state and county, city, or village for at least three months prior to an election	a	2,370,919 (64%)	1,354,807 (36%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 7	Public education funding; Gambling policy	Allow the state legislature to authorize, as prescribed by law, the sale of lottery tickets if the proceeds go towards education funding within the state	a	2,464,898 (61%)	1,604,694 (39%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 8	Voter registration	Allow the absentee registration of voters who are unable to appear for personal registration due to work requiring them to be outside of the counties of their residence	a	2,451,854 (67%)	1,202,983 (33%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 9	Public education funding; Property taxes; State and local government budgets, spending, and finance	Empower the Buffalo city school district to have separate taxing and borrowing powers from the City of Buffalo for a minimum of five years	d	1,505,396 (43%)	1,995,523 (57%)
BI	Proposition 1	Land use and development policy; Parks, land, and natural area conservation; Bond issues	Authorize issuing $200 million in bonds to develop and acquire land for outdoor recreation, such as for parks and historic sites	a	2,402,363 (59%)	1,660,392 (41%)

1965

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 9	Public employee retirement funds; Election administration and governance	Allow the city of New York to increase pension benefits to retired members of department of street cleaning and their widows and dependent children or parents, and provide that elections, except of judicial officers, of city officers, and county officers in any county wholly within a city, except to fill vacancies, shall be held in odd-numbered years	a	1,617,270 (55%)	1,310,803 (45%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 1	State executive powers and duties	Require the governor to submit the executive budget to the state legislature by February 1 in each year following the year fixed by the Constitution for the election of the governor and lieutenant governor, and by the second Tuesday following the first day of the annual meeting of the legislature in other years	a	1,882,387 (62%)	1,170,320 (38%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 2	Judicial term limits	Establish that the term length of justices of town courts cannot be less than four years, starting from the first day of January after their election	d	1,379,294 (46%)	1,622,926 (54%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 3	State legislative term limits	Increase the term length of state senators and assemblymen from two years to four years, starting in 1966	d	1,221,793 (40%)	1,806,245 (60%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 4	State legislative authority; Public assistance programs	Authorize the state legislature to make provisions for nursing home accommodations for low income individuals	a	1,584,127 (52%)	1,474,130 (48%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 5	Housing development funding; Eminent domain policy	Extend the authority of state and municipalities to make loans and grant power of eminent domain to partnerships, trusts and corporations engaged in providing housing facilities	d	1,215,721 (41%)	1,719,041 (59%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 6	State legislative processes and sessions	Provide that proposed amendments to the state constitution adopted by the legislature in one session be published for three months prior to the next general election and before the next legislative session	d	1,191,595 (41%)	1,682,195 (59%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 7	Judicial term limits; Age limits for officials; State judiciary oversight; State judicial authority	Authorize any former judge of the Surrogate's Court in any county within New York city or in Nassau, Suffolk or Westchester counties, as well as to former Court of Appeals Judges and former Supreme Court Justices, to perform the duties of Supreme Court Justices until December 31 of the year when they turn 76 years old	d	1,328,360 (46%)	1,540,430 (54%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 8	Airport infrastructure; Public land policy	Authorize the state to give 28 acres to the town of Arrieta for the development of Piseco airport in exchange for 30 acres for the state	a	1,616,165 (56%)	1,278,375 (44%)
LRCCQ	Proposed Question No. 1	State constitutional conventions	Hold a convention to revise the state constitution	a	1,681,438 (53%)	1,468,431 (47%)
BI	Proposition 1	Pollution, waste, and recycling policy; Sewage and stormwater; Bond issues	Issue $1 billion in bonds for the development of sewage treatment facilities	a	3,037,370 (81%)	718,398 (19%)
BI	Proposition 2	Housing assistance programs; Bond issues	Increase the maximum aggregate amount of state periodic subsidies by $9 million and issue of $200 million in bonds for slum clearance and low-rent housing	d	1,227,584 (37%)	2,115,134 (63%)
BI	Proposition 3	Housing assistance programs; Bond issues	Increase the maximum aggregate amount of state subsidies for low-rent housing and urban renewal purposes by $13.5 million	d	1,139,715 (35%)	2,127,721 (65%)

1964

November 3

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Housing assistance programs	Increase the Legislature’s power to assist housing and urban renewal efforts, improve substandard homes, and allow municipalities to take on debt for these goals	d	1,508,342 (40%)	2,225,760 (60%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	State legislative authority	Repeal provision for compensation for taking public property and amended provisions for covering legislative salaries, street railroads, and claims against the state regarding civil service preferences for veterans prior to January 1	a	1,849,292 (52%)	1,710,239 (48%)

1963

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Absentee and mail voting	Allow the legislature to liberalize voting requirements in presidential elections for persons who have recently moved into, within or outside the state and permits wider use of absentee ballots	a	1,962,094 (76%)	618,402 (24%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Salaries of government officials; State executive branch structure	Delete the maximum salaries of the governor and lieutenant governor and provide provisions for succession	a	1,724,497 (71%)	699,447 (29%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Government continuity policy; State legislative authority	Allow the legislature to provide for continuity of state and local governmental operations in periods of emergency caused by enemy attack or disaster	a	2,021,720 (82%)	441,696 (18%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Local government organization	Expand home rule powers for local governments and municipalities	a	1,719,074 (72%)	667,042 (28%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Debt limits; Sewage and stormwater	Permit local governments to exclude the cost of sewage treatment and disposal facilities from their debt limit for an eleven year period	a	1,490,558 (63%)	874,313 (37%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Public employee retirement funds	Grant villages the authority to increase pension benefits to retired members of police and fire departments, as well as their widows and dependent children or parents	a	1,867,020 (76%)	601,340 (24%)
LRCA	Amendment 7	Pollution, waste, and recycling policy; Parks, land, and natural area conservation	Permit the state to convey ten acres of forest preserve land to the village of Saranac Lake for refuse disposal in exchange for thirty acres of true forest land owned by the village	a	1,861,710 (77%)	546,593 (23%)

1962

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State legislative authority	Strengthen the state constitution’s anti-corruption provisions by broadening the definition of bribery involving public officials and permanently barring convicted officials from holding public office	a	1,619,745 (66%)	839,588 (34%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Land use and development policy; American Indian issues	Repeal outdated provisions dealing with ownership of lands, escheat and Indian lands	a	1,521,201 (64%)	857,022 (36%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Constitutional wording changes	Repeal a military article and replace with a defense article	a	1,626,248 (69%)	746,308 (31%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Redistricting policy	Delete outdated 1894 Senate district boundary descriptions while keeping the apportionment formula unchanged	a	1,507,357 (64%)	845,358 (36%)
BI	Proposition 1	Bond issues; Parks, land, and natural area conservation	Issue a $25 million bond to purchase open lands for parks, conservation and recreation	a	1,786,496 (67%)	889,924 (33%)

1961

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Constitutional wording changes; State judiciary structure	Reorganize the state court system	a	2,303,446 (82%)	507,211 (18%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Administrative powers and rulemaking; State legislative authority; State executive powers and duties	Restrict the number and flexibility of civil departments while expanding the governor’s and legislature’s authority over their organization and functions	a	1,858,351 (73%)	700,873 (27%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Railways; Balanced budget requirements	Authorized no more than $100 million for the Port Authority of New York for the purchase and lease of railroad commuter cars	a	1,608,405 (62%)	974,079 (38%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Balanced budget requirements; Public economic investment policy	Authorize loans not exceeding $50 million to non-profit corporations for industrial and manufacturing plants to provide increased employment in areas of need	a	1,549,726 (62%)	954,203 (38%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Debt limits	Authorize a state debt for two or more specific purposes in event of a general economic recession	d	1,166,894 (48%)	1,262,080 (52%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Balanced budget requirements; Higher education funding	Authorize state liability for no more than $500 million for the construction of buildings and other improvements at higher education institutions	d	1,278,992 (47%)	1,440,450 (53%)
LRCA	Amendment 7	Public land policy; Highways and bridges	Grant the use of Hamilton County forest preserve lands for highway relocation	d	1,021,765 (41%)	1,453,392 (59%)

1960

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
BI	Proposition 1	Bond issues; Parks, land, and natural area conservation	Authorize a state debt of $75 million to acquire more open lands for recreational and conservation purposes	a	2,390,585 (73%)	889,234 (27%)

1959

November 3

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Administrative organization; Vehicle and driver regulations	Establish a Department of Motor Vehicles in the state government	a	1,869,500 (67%)	911,609 (33%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Public land policy; Highways and bridges	Permit for no more than 300 acres of state forest preserve land to be used for the construction and maintenance of the Northway interstate highway	a	1,621,428 (56%)	1,261,769 (44%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Administrative powers and rulemaking	Remove public officials from office for five years who refuse to waive immunity or answer questions when called before a grand jury about their official conduct	a	1,907,659 (72%)	738,540 (28%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Public education funding; Bond issues	Permit New York City to issue $500 million in bonds for school construction outside its debt limit	d	1,248,208 (43%)	1,638,353 (57%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Primary election systems	Permit legislature to provide for the elimination of primary elections where there is no contest	a	1,544,635 (61%)	1,000,435 (39%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	State legislative authority	Empower the legislature to lease or transfer the state's barge canal system to the federal government for inclusion into the national system of inland waterways	a	1,505,107 (57%)	1,125,082 (43%)
LRCA	Amendment 7	Public employee retirement funds	Increase pension benefits for certain police and fire department employees or their dependents	a	1,909,448 (70%)	829,642 (30%)
LRCA	Amendment 8	State legislative authority; Income taxes	Allow the Legislature to provide definition of income for income tax purposes by reference to federal laws	a	1,616,812 (63%)	939,003 (37%)
LRCA	Amendment 9	Local government organization; Local government finance and taxes	Authorize multiple municipalities to jointly provide services and facilities, take on shared or separate debt for those projects, and raise taxes or fees to support them	a	1,648,447 (65%)	904,202 (35%)

1958

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Local government organization	Grant the choice to create and amend alternative forms of government to counties outside of the City of New York power within the limitations of the Legislature	a	1,606,777 (67%)	782,133 (33%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Housing assistance programs; Bond issues	Extend time of payment of notes or obligations for money borrowed in anticipation of the sale of bonds authorized for housing purposes	a	1,309,103 (56%)	1,040,784 (44%)
BI	Proposition 1	Debt limits; Housing development funding	Create a $100 million state debt for slum clearance and low-rent housing	a	1,187,034 (51%)	1,140,848 (49%)
BI	Proposition 2	Debt limits; Housing development funding	Issue $100 million in loans to limited-profit housing companies	a	1,156,093 (50%)	1,133,936 (50%)

1957

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Local government finance and taxes; Higher education funding	Authorize a $250 million state debt for expansion of the state university	a	1,895,896 (70%)	805,251 (30%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Housing development funding	Provide for a method of amortization of state loans for public or limited-profit housing	a	1,612,471 (64%)	916,771 (36%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Gambling policy	Authorized the conduct of bingo games by certain organizations under state regulation and local government supervision	a	1,818,353 (61%)	1,175,820 (39%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Debt limits; Housing development funding	Excluded liability for certain state housing loans in ensuring debt-incurring power of towns and villages for housing purposes	a	1,497,237 (62%)	931,047 (38%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Parks, land, and natural area conservation	Authorize the dedication, use, sale, exchange or other disposition of certain state forest preserve lands	a	1,551,982 (61%)	972,118 (39%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Highways and bridges; Parks, land, and natural area conservation; Public land policy	Permit the limited use of forest preserve lands for state highway purposes	a	1,725,735 (69%)	791,744 (31%)
LRCA	Question 1	State constitutional conventions	Call a constitutional convention to amend the constitution	d	1,242,568 (48%)	1,368,063 (52%)

1955

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Highways and bridges; Bond issues	Issue a state bond not exceeding $750 million for the construction and reconstruction of state highways	d	1,139,002 (43%)	1,493,308 (57%)
LRCA	Amendment 10	State judicial selection	Authorize the governor to appoint temporary judges for up to one year when a justices of the supreme court are unable to serve due to temporary illness or disability	d	822,693 (43%)	1,073,103 (57%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Housing assistance programs; Housing development funding	Raise the state’s annual and total spending limits on low-rent and public housing subsidies while requiring voter approval for any contracts exceeding those caps	a	1,139,185 (53%)	1,011,424 (47%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Absentee and mail voting	Authorize legislature to provide absentee voting for qualified voters	a	1,172,556 (56%)	923,855 (44%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Tax and revenue administration	Authorize legislature to assign comptroller powers to assess taxation and assessment of real estate	a	1,077,914 (54%)	918,978 (46%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Local government finance and taxes	Exclude indebtedness contracted to provide for the collection or disposal of sewage	d	818,551 (41%)	1,175,343 (59%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Sewage and stormwater; Public economic investment policy	Authorize contract of indebtedness for public corporations and improvement districts to provide for the conveyance, treatment and disposal of sewage	a	1,163,800 (59%)	803,884 (41%)
LRCA	Amendment 7	Public land policy; Parks, land, and natural area conservation	Authorize the use of certain state owned forest preserve lands for the construction and operation of Panther Mountain reservoir to regulate the flow of Moose and Black rivers	d	613,927 (27%)	1,622,196 (73%)
LRCA	Amendment 8	State judicial authority	Broaden the ban on judges holding other public offices to include judges in large counties and voids any votes electing them to non-judicial positions or a constitutional convention	a	1,078,167 (56%)	849,029 (44%)
LRCA	Amendment 9	State judicial selection	Allow governor to appointment temporary judges of county courts in counties outside the city of New York for up to ninty days in case of the temporary illness or disability of the incumbent	d	824,424 (43%)	1,093,048 (57%)

1953

November 3

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State judicial selection	Temporarily assign justices or judges to terms of courts within the city of New York	a	995,128 (78%)	276,700 (22%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	State judiciary structure	Increase the monetary civil jurisdiction from $3k to $6k for county courts outside New York City	a	1,141,754 (75%)	376,815 (25%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	State executive branch structure; State executive elections	Call for the joint election of the governor and lieutenant governor and provide for the legislature to fill vacancies in those two offices	a	844,310 (56%)	663,471 (44%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Local government finance and taxes; Drinking water systems	Grant powers to the legislature to contract indebtedness in public corporations and improvement districts concerning supply of water	d	56,798 (12%)	431,766 (88%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Salaries of government officials	Fix the salary of the governor to a $50k maximum	a	1,016,430 (65%)	538,529 (35%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Salaries of government officials	Fix the salary of the lieutenant governor to a $20k maximum	a	1,011,359 (66%)	531,632 (34%)
LRCA	Amendment 7	Debt limits; Local government finance and taxes	Give power to counties, cities, towns, villages and certain school districts to contract indebtedness and to raise taxes on real estate	a	989,741 (65%)	524,193 (35%)
LRCA	Amendment 8	Housing development funding	Raise and standardize the maximum amount New York City and its counties can collect in property taxes to a combined limit of 2.5% of assessed real-estate value	a	947,531 (63%)	560,023 (37%)
LRCA	Amendment 9	Parks, land, and natural area conservation; State legislative authority	Remove the power of legislature to use of portions of forest preserve for the construction of reservoirs to regulate the flow of streams	a	1,002,462 (59%)	697,270 (41%)

1951

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 1	Military service policy; Absentee and mail voting	This amendment was related to the "absentee voting privileges of electors in military service and certain members of their immediate families."	a	1,695,034 (90%)	193,223 (10%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 2	Military service policy; Elections and campaigns	This amendment was related to the exemption "requirement of personal registration voters in military service, inmates of certain veterans' bureau hospitals and certain members of their immediate families."	a	1,584,025 (88%)	217,601 (12%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 3	Public employee retirement funds	This amendment empowered the legislature "to increase pensions of members of retirement system of the state or of any subdivision."	a	1,392,034 (75%)	471,148 (25%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 4	Bond issues	This amendment empowered the legislature "by law to make the state liable for bonded indebtedness of a public corporation created to construct state thruways." It also authorized the "use of state canal lands and properties by such corporation."	a	1,563,044 (81%)	366,767 (19%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 5	State judiciary	This amendment provided for "appeals to court of appeals, by permission, from non-final orders in proceedings by or against public officers."	a	1,357,821 (83%)	278,959 (17%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 6	State and local government budgets, spending, and finance	This amendment restricted the "powers of counties, cities, towns, villages and certain school districts to contract indebtedness and to impose taxes upon real estate."	a	1,297,378 (74%)	461,611 (26%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 7	State judiciary	This amendment increased the "monetary jurisdiction of the city court of the city of New York."	a	1,320,299 (80%)	325,476 (20%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 8	State judiciary	This amendment permitted "judges of the court of appeals and justices of the supreme court to serve in the armed forces of the United States or state of New York."	a	1,343,294 (79%)	348,584 (21%)

1949

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State executive branch structure	Authorize the lieutenant-governor-elect to serve as governor in event of death of governor-elect before assuming office	a	1,796,852 (80%)	452,419 (20%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Veterans policy	Authorize the payment of war bonuses to members of armed forces from New York state regardless of residency status	a	1,633,560 (72%)	633,569 (28%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	State judiciary structure	Establish a court of claims as constitutional court of record	a	1,479,971 (71%)	616,707 (29%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Administrative powers and rulemaking	Provide for an increased penalty for a public officer that refuses to waive immunity or give testimony	a	1,611,049 (77%)	471,724 (23%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Civil service; Veterans policy	Revise veterans' preference in civil service employment to include increased retainment and promotions	a	1,592,483 (59%)	1,090,977 (41%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Housing development funding; Local government finance and taxes; Debt limits	Allow villages of 5,000 or more inhabitants certain powers of cities in relation to indebtedness for low rent housing	a	1,441,214 (70%)	627,479 (30%)
LRCA	Amendment 7	Debt limits; Local government finance and taxes	Allow municipalities to exclude certain self-sustaining public-improvement debts from their constitutional debt limits, exclude $150 million of New York City hospital construction debt from its limit, and shorten from 50 to 40 years the period in which the city may take on transit and dock-related debt	a	1,435,575 (71%)	590,332 (29%)
LRCA	Amendment 8	Tax and revenue administration; Property taxes	Maintain the 2% tax limit but change it to be based on full property value, extend this limit to all local governments, give certain small school districts an exclusion for specific taxes, and require revenue from public improvements to be used first to cover operating and debt obligations	a	1,364,859 (69%)	602,855 (31%)
BI	Proposition 1	Housing development funding; Local government finance and taxes; Housing assistance programs	Provide a state debt of $300 million for the purpose of making loans to cities, town, villages and authorities for slum clearance and low-rent purposes	a	1,112,494 (61%)	717,411 (39%)

1947

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendmen 4	State judicial selection	Establish a special Court on the Judiciary to oversee the removal or retirement of judges for cause or disability, allowing it after formal charges and a hearing to remove a judge, disqualify them from future office, or retire them for disability	a	1,572,256 (68%)	749,020 (32%)
LRCA	Amendment 1	Veterans policy	Authorize the legislature to create a state debt for payments to veterans of the armed forces from New York	a	2,221,800 (73%)	805,826 (27%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Absentee and mail voting	Permit more extensive use of absentee ballots	a	1,848,701 (76%)	573,050 (24%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Salaries of government officials	Permit members of the legislature to receive a fixed salary by law and delete a provision of Constitution that had fixed the annual salary at legislators at $2,500	a	1,431,636 (61%)	901,023 (39%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	State judiciary structure	Create another judicial district out of a second judicial district	a	1,181,559 (54%)	1,009,223 (46%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Athletics and sports; Parks, land, and natural area conservation	Allow for the construction and maintenance of ski trails on Gore Mountain and Belleayre Mountain in the Catskill Mountains	a
BI	Proposition 1	Housing development funding; Bond issues	Issue a $135 million bond for slum clearance and public housing	a	1,515,403 (71%)	633,868 (29%)
BI	Proposition 2	Housing development funding	Increased aggregate payments for subsidies for public housing projects from $9 million to $13 million	a	1,439,187 (70%)	627,198 (30%)
BI	Proposition 3	Housing development funding	Increase maximum aggregate payments for periodic subsidies in housing projects from $1 million to $1.5 million for one year	a	1,429,548 (69%)	630,862 (31%)

1945

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State executive elections	Require that the governor and lieutenant-governor be chosen jointly	d	475,912 (49%)	485,534 (51%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	State executive powers and duties	Set new rules for filling vacancies in the governor and lieutenant governor offices by requiring a prompt election, assign the senate’s temporary president to perform their duties when these offices are vacant or impaired, and allow the assembly speaker to act as governor if the temporary president cannot do so	a	575,740 (64%)	324,258 (36%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Election administration and governance	Remove the disqualification of votes of certain electors of a nonpersonal election district after removal within thirty days preceding an election from one election district to another in the same county	a	458,749 (52%)	416,474 (48%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Redistricting policy	Provide that towns with certain population ratios may be divided in creation of senate and assembly districts	a	613,373 (70%)	264,296 (30%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Local government organization	Permit two-thirds of the members of a county governing body to request enactment of special or local laws by the legislature without approval of county executive officer	a	608,296 (71%)	246,141 (29%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Civil service; Veterans policy	Give disabled veterans preference in civil service appointments and promotions and extended the same preference to non-disabled veterans until December 31,1950	a	621,436 (51%)	587,217 (49%)

1943

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Administrative organization	Establish a department of commerce in the state government	a	600,495 (72%)	239,222 (28%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Tax and revenue administration	Authorize the legislature to establish a fund or funds for tax revenue stabilization reserves and regulate payments and withdrawals from them	a	558,726 (69%)	246,011 (31%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Redistricting policy	Create assembly districts in counties that have been apportioned a greater number of assemblymen than the number of towns in the county	d	385,025 (50%)	387,496 (50%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Residency voting requirements	Change the residence requirement for voting purposes and require a four month residence for voters in counties, cities or villages	a	599,330 (73%)	220,812 (27%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	State legislative elections	Allow a senator or assemblyman elected right after district lines are changed to be eligible for office if they have lived in the county containing the new district for the past twelve months instead of meeting the usual district residency requirement	a	566,149 (73%)	212,320 (27%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	State judicial authority	Expand the Court of Appeals' jurisdiction to cover more types of appeals, including factual issues, special proceedings, certain civil cases, and constitutional questions, while also adjusting procedures for seeking leave to appeal and limiting the legislature’s ability to eliminate appeals to the Court of Appeals	a	571,574 (73%)	207,888 (27%)

1941

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Bond issues; Highways and bridges; Railways	Authorize $60 million in railroad grade crossing elimination bonds for construction and reconstruction of state highways and parkways	a	936,279 (60%)	629,313 (40%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	State legislative term limits	Provide four-year terms to state senators	d	588,894 (41%)	860,684 (59%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Constitutional wording changes	Ensure that the absence of the attorney general's opinion on a proposed amendment to the constitution does not affect the validity of it	a	776,385 (58%)	558,638 (42%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Athletics and sports; Parks, land, and natural area conservation	Permit the construction of ski trails on slopes of Whiteface Mountain	a	740,506 (50%)	730,562 (50%)

1939

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Gambling policy	Permit pari-mutuel betting on horse races	a	1,225,495 (67%)	594,811 (33%)

1938

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State constitutional conventions	Amend the Constitution generally, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, except Amendments 2-9	a	1,521,036 (54%)	1,301,797 (46%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	State legislative term limits; Redistricting policy	Repeal Sections 2 to 5 of Article 3 of the state Constitution and substitute new sections on legislative apportionment and increase term of senators from two to four years	d	848,367 (37%)	1,425,344 (63%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Railways; State constitutional conventions	Eliminate railroad grade crossings	a	1,561,846 (64%)	895,382 (36%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	State constitutional conventions; Housing development funding	Authorize up to $300 million for loans, grant subsidies, expand the debt limit of cities by 2 percent for low rent housing and slum clearance	a	1,686,056 (64%)	936,279 (36%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	State judicial selection; State constitutional conventions; Judicial term limits; State judicial authority	Amend a judiciary article to include changes to judicial districts, justices, appeals process, jurisdictions and domestic cases	d	641,332 (29%)	1,550,653 (71%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Public works labor and contracting	Ensure rights of labor and fix the hours of workers and the rate of wages on public works	a	1,869,883 (67%)	940,770 (33%)
CCRCA	Amendment 7	Proportional representation	Prohibit a system of proportional representation in New York	d	627,123 (29%)	1,554,404 (71%)
LRCA	Amendment 8	State constitutional conventions; Public assistance programs	Permit the use of state money and credit for social welfare, including provision, by insurance or otherwise, against the hazards of unemployment, sickness and old age	a	1,902,075 (67%)	943,296 (33%)
LRCA	Amendment 9	Public transportation; Local government finance and taxes	Allocate $315 million from the debt limit of NYC for the unification of transit facilities	a	1,407,056 (60%)	935,744 (40%)

1937

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Executive official term limits	Increase the term of office of governor and lieutenant governor from two years to four years	a	842,980 (63%)	503,656 (37%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	State legislative term limits	Increase the term of office for Assembly members from one year to two years	a	856,818 (65%)	463,074 (35%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Jury rules; Criminal trials	Permit defendants in all criminal cases, except those in which the crime charged may be punishable by death, to waive trial by jury	a	721,540 (57%)	550,297 (43%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Local official term limits	Remove the provision which made sheriffs ineligible for the next term after the termination of their offices	a	697,007 (53%)	610,515 (47%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	State judicial authority	Prescribe the jurisdiction and powers of the city court of the city of New York	d	551,569 (46%)	636,938 (54%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	State judicial authority	Prescribe the jurisdiction and powers of the municipal court of the city of New York	d	538,312 (45%)	649,769 (55%)
BI	Proposition 1	Prison and jail funding; Healthcare facility funding; Bond issues	Issue a $40 million bond for the construction of buildings for state hospitals for the insane, state charitable and correctional institutions.	a	756,843 (63%)	444,527 (37%)

1936

November 3

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State constitutional conventions	Call for a constitutional convention to amend the state Constitution	a	1,413,604 (54%)	1,190,275 (46%)
BI	Proposition 1	Bond issues; Public assistance programs	Issue a $30 million bond for unemployment relief funds from 11/15/1936 through 2/15/1938	a	1,578,519 (67%)	788,512 (33%)

1935

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Administrative organization	Provide for reorganization of the government and officers of counties	a	1,288,297 (72%)	499,332 (28%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Civil trials; Jury rules	Provide that a verdict can be reached by five-sixths or more of the jurymen in a civil case	a	1,150,687 (71%)	480,340 (29%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Banking policy	Repeal section seven of article eight of the constitution which provided that stockholders of corporations and joint-stock association shall be individually responsible for their shares and stocks for banking purposes	a	1,086,701 (67%)	538,442 (33%)
BI	Proposition 1	Bond issues	Issue a $55 million bond for emergency relief from 11/15/1935 through 2/15/1937	a	1,204,698 (69%)	534,107 (31%)

1933

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Land use and development policy	Provide an alternate method of compensation for private property when it is taken by New York City.	a	1,113,371 (72%)	443,326 (28%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Veterans policy; Civil service	Extend civil service preference to disabled veterans who were residents but not citizens of the state at time of entrance into military or naval service	d	755,675 (45%)	939,036 (55%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Highways and bridges; Public land policy	Allow for the construction of a road from Indian Lake to Speculator on state forest preserve land	a	1,099,399 (69%)	492,424 (31%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Ports and harbors	Sell or dispose of barge terminal canal lands in New York city	a	1,109,388 (72%)	425,378 (28%)
BI	Proposition 1	Bond issues	Create a $60 million state debt for temporary emergency relief	a	1,669,801 (84%)	306,341 (16%)

1932

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Parks, land, and natural area conservation; Public land policy	Use forest preserve land for lodges, hotels, and recreational facilities	d	693,542 (34%)	1,326,599 (66%)
BI	Proposition 1	Bond issues; Public assistance programs	Issue a $30 million state bond for temporary emergency relief	a	1,780,502 (79%)	473,365 (21%)

1931

November 3

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Redistricting policy	Abolish the state census and begin the use of the federal census as a basis for formation of senatorial and assembly districts	a	924,228 (73%)	335,206 (27%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Parks, land, and natural area conservation	Provide for increasing annual amounts for the purchase and reforestation of lands outside of Adirondack and Catskill Parks	a	778,192 (58%)	554,550 (42%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	State legislative authority; State judiciary structure	Permit the legislature to divide the second judicial district and create a new district	d	504,737 (47%)	578,445 (53%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Public assistance programs; Administrative organization	Change the the title of the state department of charities to the state department of social welfare	a	812,545 (69%)	365,804 (31%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Property taxes	Authorize Westchester county to adopt a system of assessment for taxation purposes	d	497,616 (47%)	552,559 (53%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 2	State legislative authority	Permit legislators to receive civil appointments during their legislative terms	d	424,522 (38%)	700,177 (62%)

1929

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Civil service; Veterans policy	Give preference for employment and promotion in civil service to disabled veterans who are citizens and residents of the state	a	1,071,517 (73%)	404,454 (27%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Absentee and mail voting	Provide for absentee voting by inmates of a US veteran's bureau hospital	a	1,119,164 (81%)	256,664 (19%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Local government organization; State legislative authority	Limit the power of legislature relative to Nassau and Westchester county laws	a	818,497 (71%)	327,904 (29%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	State and local government budgets, spending, and finance	Permit contracting of a state debt to suppress forest fires	a	959,454 (75%)	313,512 (25%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	State judiciary structure	Authorize transfer of jurisdiction in criminal matters held by the justices of the peace to inferior local courts of criminal jurisdiction	a	889,689 (74%)	312,622 (26%)

1927

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Balanced budget requirements; Constitutional wording changes	Submit a new article, Article 4-A, on the executive budget	a	1,291,990 (74%)	446,107 (26%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Railways; Debt limits	Permit the City of New York to incur a debt of no more than 300 million for the construction of and equipment for new rapid transit railroads	a	961,632 (55%)	799,867 (45%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Railways; Local government finance and taxes	Eliminate railroad grade crossings and ensure counties cover a proportion of the cost	a	1,339,332 (77%)	397,205 (23%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Salaries of government officials	Increase the salaries of legislators, the governor and lieutenant-governor	a	1,073,802 (61%)	683,999 (39%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	State executive powers and duties; State executive branch structure	Make the governor the head of the executive department	a	1,197,931 (71%)	488,095 (29%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	State legislative term limits; Executive official term limits	Change the term of senators to four-years, assemblyman to two-years and the governor, lieutenant governor, comptroller and attorney-general to four-year terms	d	578,863 (32%)	1,256,157 (68%)
LRCA	Amendment 7	Highways and bridges; Public land policy	Permit the construction of a state highway on forest preserve land	a	1,082,864 (64%)	602,395 (36%)
LRCA	Amendment 8	Public land policy	Authorize counties to condemn, sell or lease land for constructing parks, public places, highways or streets	a	1,085,441 (67%)	533,705 (33%)
LRCA	Amendment 9	Land use and development policy	Prevent annexation of a territory to a city without the consent of the majority of people residing in that territory	a	1,144,872 (68%)	527,388 (32%)

1925

November 3

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Bond issues; Public works labor and contracting	Authorize a 10 million bond issue for the construction of public buildings	a	960,385 (51%)	937,990 (49%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Bond issues; Railways	Authorize a 3 hundred million bond issue for the elimination of railroad grade crossings	a	1,032,109 (55%)	859,702 (45%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Administrative organization	Abolish a number of constitutional offices and establish twenty civil departments of the state government which shall exercise all the civil, administrative and executive functions of the state government, be approved?	a	1,048,087 (57%)	775,768 (43%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	State judiciary structure	Enact changes related to the organization of the state judicial system	a	1,090,632 (61%)	711,018 (39%)

1924

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRSS	Proposition 1	Parks, land, and natural area conservation; Bond issues	Issue a state bond of $15 million for the improvement of state parks and for the establishment of new state parks	a	1,542,928 (73%)	556,920 (27%)

1923

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Veterans policy	Provide $45 million for payments to honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines of the World War who were residents of the state when they entered military service	a	1,072,112 (61%)	689,885 (39%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Local government organization	Authorize every city to pass local laws in relation to its property, affairs and government, except the public school system, and restricting the legislature, except in emergencies on message from the Governor	a	957,108 (65%)	510,947 (35%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Water storage; Parks, land, and natural area conservation; Hydroelectric energy	Authorize not more than 3 percent of forest preserve land for water power development	d	470,251 (33%)	965,777 (67%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Debt limits; Property tax exemptions	Prevent changes in property tax exemptions from reducing city or county debt and tax limits, keep previously assessed property values for those purposes, and give the Appellate Division authority to determine the valuation of such property	d	608,684 (48%)	671,141 (52%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Absentee and mail voting	Extend absentee voting to inmates, soldiers and sailors	a	1,019,077 (71%)	423,497 (29%)
BI	Proposition 1	Bond issues	Issue a state bond of $50 million to construct buildings for institutions for care, support, instruction and training of wards of the State	a	1,105,999 (73%)	398,811 (27%)

1922

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Local government finance and taxes	Require mayors to return special city bills to the Clerk of the House instead of holding them, and if the legislature is not in session, require the Clerk to immediately send the bills to the Governor	a	819,628 (60%)	554,654 (40%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Salaries of government officials	Increase the salaries of Court of Appeals judges	d	572,502 (39%)	891,980 (61%)

1921

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Civil service; Veterans policy	Extend civil service preference for veterans	d	699,697 (39%)	1,090,418 (61%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Salaries of government officials	Increase the salaries of legislators	d	556,560 (35%)	1,027,624 (65%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Literacy, poll tax, and property voting requirements	Ensure English literacy as a voting qualification	a	896,355 (59%)	632,144 (41%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	State judiciary structure	Establish children courts and courts of domestic relations	a	930,929 (63%)	537,610 (37%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Ports and harbors	Approve the disposition of a portion of the Erie Canal	a	800,487 (59%)	555,926 (41%)
LRCA	Amendment 7	Ports and harbors	Approve an initial disposition of a portion of the Erie Canal	a	781,665 (59%)	552,994 (41%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 4	Local government organization	Establish governing bodies in Nassau and Westchester counties	a	655,506 (51%)	640,701 (49%)

1920

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Debt limits	Amend sections 2, 4, 5, 11 and 12 of Article 7 of the state constitution which were related to state indebtedness	a	1,117,546 (64%)	630,265 (36%)

1919

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Water storage	Allow for the use of land for drainage	a	718,497 (55%)	590,235 (45%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Absentee and mail voting	Allow for absentee voting	a	791,860 (60%)	534,452 (40%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Salaries of government officials	Increase the salary of the House speaker and legislators	d	625,897 (48%)	680,945 (52%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Salaries of government officials	Increase the salary of judges on the court of appeals	d	608,244 (47%)	690,131 (53%)

1918

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Debt limits	Restrict debt period to the probable life of the work for which the debt is contracted and authorize bonds to be paid in annual installments by direct tax or legislative appropriation	a	780,099 (73%)	285,977 (27%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Highways and bridges; Public land policy	Allow for the construction of a highway from Saranac Lake to Long Lake to Old Forge	a	756,894 (69%)	337,257 (31%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Ports and harbors	Authorize the sale or lease of the Erie Canal in the city of Utica between Schuyler and Third streets	a	722,235 (70%)	310,992 (30%)

1917

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Women's suffrage; Sex and gender issues	Provide for women's suffrage in the state constitution	a	703,129 (54%)	600,776 (46%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Local government finance and taxes; Debt limits	Adjust the city debt limit	a	591,728 (58%)	420,303 (42%)

1916

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State constitutional conventions	Call a constitutional convention to amend the constitution	d	506,563 (43%)	658,269 (57%)
BI	Proposition 1	Bond issues; Parks, land, and natural area conservation	Issue a $10 million bond for the acquisition of land for state park purposes	a	653,129 (57%)	501,514 (43%)

1915

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 2	Sex and gender issues; Women's suffrage	Provide for women's suffrage in state constitution	d	553,348 (43%)	748,332 (57%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 1	State constitution ratification	The measure would have authorized a new state constitution.	d	400,423 (31%)	910,462 (69%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 3	State and local government budgets, spending, and finance	This amendment was related to state debt.	d	430,423 (37%)	725,784 (63%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 4	State legislatures measures	This amendment was related to legislative apportionment.	d	371,588 (29%)	891,337 (71%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 5	Taxes		d	346,922 (27%)	924,571 (73%)

1914

April 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State constitutional conventions	Call for a constitutional convention to revise the constitution	a	153,322 (50%)	151,969 (50%)

1913

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Public works labor and contracting	Allow compensation on private property taken for public use	a	424,928 (61%)	270,467 (39%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Constitutional wording changes	Provide that there shall be no constitutional limitation upon the power of the legislature to eneact laws for the protection of the lives, safety or health of employees	a	510,914 (72%)	194,497 (28%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	State judiciary structure	Increase the number of county judges	a	389,971 (60%)	255,539 (40%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Parks, land, and natural area conservation; Water storage	Allow for the use of no more than three percent of forest preserve lands for the construction and maintenance of state controlled reservoirs for municipal water supply	a	486,264 (72%)	187,290 (28%)

1911

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Salaries of government officials	Increase the salaries of legislators	d	262,490 (39%)	414,404 (61%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	State judiciary structure; State judicial authority	Remove the authority of appellate division justices to set the times and places for special court terms, assign judges to those terms and make rules governing them	d	267,194 (43%)	352,830 (57%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	State judiciary structure	Allow for additional county judges for Kings County	d	247,764 (41%)	360,859 (59%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Public land policy	Establish guidelines for the process of taking private property for public use	d	254,095 (42%)	357,881 (58%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Salaries of government officials	Increase the salary of the governor	d	252,791 (40%)	376,455 (60%)
LRCA	Amendment 7	Public land policy	Authorize the Supreme Court to ascertain compensation for private property taken for public use	d	274,846 (46%)	322,782 (54%)
LRCA	Amendmnet 6	Ports and harbors	Regulate abandonment of canals and the use of funds derived from the abandonment	d	282,893 (47%)	324,465 (53%)

1910

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Salaries of government officials	Elect two additional Associate Judges of the Court of Appeals, terminate the provision for the designation of Justices of the Supreme Court to serve as Associate Judges of the Court of Appeals and increase the salaries of judges	d	332,300 (50%)	332,592 (50%)

1909

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Salaries of government officials	Set a salary for Supreme Court Justices	a	278,415 (53%)	249,576 (47%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Debt limits	Allow the legislature to alter the rate of interest on debts	a	279,352 (56%)	216,541 (44%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Local government organization	Set the powers of the boards of supervisors, county auditors and other fiscal officers	a	253,774 (53%)	223,331 (47%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Debt limits; Local government finance and taxes	Limit indebtedness of cities	a	290,795 (58%)	207,781 (42%)

1907

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Debt limits	Establish guideliness for limiting indebtedness of cities of the second class	a	352,905 (72%)	137,721 (28%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Local government organization	Establish guidelines for classification of cities	a	309,159 (71%)	123,919 (29%)

1905

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Local government finance and taxes; Debt limits	Amend limitation of indebtedness of counties, cities, towns and villages	a	363,117 (74%)	129,424 (26%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Debt limits	Allocate funds to pay off state debts	a	307,768 (70%)	134,773 (30%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	State judiciary structure	Allow for an increase in justices in the judicial districts	a	297,893 (69%)	133,999 (31%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Local government organization	Provide for the organization of cities	a	338,570 (72%)	133,606 (28%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Highways and bridges	Allow for improvements to highways	a	383,188 (77%)	117,181 (23%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Debt limits	Establish when debts are to be paid back	a	293,552 (70%)	127,364 (30%)
LRCA	Amendment 7	State judiciary structure	Divide state into four judicial departements	a	288,227 (70%)	125,649 (30%)

1901

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Constitutional wording changes	Amend section 18 of article 3 of the Constitution	a	354,881 (53%)	309,245 (47%)

1899

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 1	Administration of government	This measure amended section 26 of article 3 of the constitution on the boards of supervisors.	a	325,182 (69%)	144,667 (31%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 2	State judiciary	This amendment was related to the "temporary designation of justices to the appellate division."	a	283,880 (67%)	137,408 (33%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 3	State judiciary		a	279,469 (68%)	132,064 (32%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 4	State and local government budgets, spending, and finance		a	315,475 (68%)	145,450 (32%)

1896

November 3

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 1	Forestry and timber	The measure would have allowed timber production on state lands.	d	321,486 (31%)	710,505 (69%)

1894

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 1	Constitutional wording changes	The measure ratified the state's fourth constitution, the Constitution of 1894.	a	410,697 (56%)	327,402 (44%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 2	State legislatures measures		a	404,335 (54%)	350,625 (46%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 3	Water		a	442,998 (57%)	327,645 (43%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 4	State judiciary	This amendment was related to county judges and court of sessions in Kings County.	a	391,350 (54%)	332,505 (46%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 5	State judiciary		a	395,233 (54%)	341,713 (46%)

1892

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 1	State legislatures measures	This amendment was related to the powers of both chambers of the legislature.	d	174,678 (49%)	180,030 (51%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 2	State judiciary		d	161,759 (45%)	198,110 (55%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 3	Mineral resources; Public land policy		d	170,765 (50%)	171,442 (50%)

1888

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 1	Constitutional wording changes	This amendment was related to a proposed amendment to section 6, article 6 of the constitution.	a	498,114 (90%)	55,822 (10%)

1886

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
ACCQ	Proposed Amendment No. 1	State constitutional conventions	This amendment called for a constitutional convention to revise and amend the constitution.	a	574,993 (95%)	30,766 (5%)

1884

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 1	Constitutional wording changes	This amendment was related to a proposed amendment to section 11, article 8 of the constitution.	a	499,661 (98%)	9,661 (2%)

1882

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 1	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to an amendment to section 3 of article 7 of the constitution.	a	486,105 (75%)	163,151 (25%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 2	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to an amendment to article 6 of the constitution.	a	248,784 (77%)	75,644 (23%)

1880

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 1	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to an amendment to sections 12 and 13 of article 6 of the constitution.	a	221,903 (67%)	111,225 (33%)

1879

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 1	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to an amendment to section 6 of article 6 of the constitution.	a	95,331 (79%)	25,578 (21%)

1876

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 1	Constitutional wording changes	This measure related to an amendment to section 3 of article 5 of the constitution.	a	533,151 (87%)	81,832 (13%)
LRCA	Proposed Amendment No. 2	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to an amendment to section 4 of article 5 of the constitution.	a	530,226 (87%)	80,358 (13%)

1874

November 3

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to an amendment to article 2 of the constitution.	a	357,635 (67%)	177,033 (33%)
LRCA	Amendment 10	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to a new article 15 to the constitution.	a	351,693 (66%)	177,923 (34%)
LRCA	Amendment 11	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to a new article 16 to the constitution.	a	446,883 (84%)	85,758 (16%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to an amendment to sections 1 through 8 of article 3 of the constitution.	a	325,904 (61%)	206,029 (39%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to an amendment to section 17 through 25 of article 3 of the constitution.	a	435,313 (82%)	98,050 (18%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to an amendment to article 4 of the constitution.	a	336,197 (63%)	196,125 (37%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to an amendment to article 7 of the constitution.	a	428,190 (80%)	104,139 (20%)
LRCA	Amendment 6	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to an amendment to sections 4 and 11 of article 8 of the constitution.	a	337,891 (63%)	194,234 (37%)
LRCA	Amendment 7	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to an amendment to section 10 of article 8 of the constitution.	a	336,237 (63%)	195,047 (37%)
LRCA	Amendment 8	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to an amendment to article 10 of the constitution.	a	335,548 (63%)	194,333 (37%)
LRCA	Amendment 9	Constitutional wording changes	This measure was related to an amendment to article 12 of the constitution.	a	352,514 (66%)	179,365 (34%)

1873

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State judiciary	This amendment was related to the appointment of judges from the court of appeals to the supreme court.	d	115,337 (26%)	319,979 (74%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	State judiciary	This amendment was related to the appointment of county and city court judges.	d	110,725 (26%)	319,660 (74%)

1872

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State judiciary	This amendment was related to the commission of appeals.	a	176,038 (95%)	9,196 (5%)

1869

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State constitution ratification	The measure would have authorized a new state constitution.	d	223,935 (44%)	290,456 (56%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	State judiciary		a	247,240 (51%)	240,442 (49%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Taxes; Property	This amendment was related to the "uniform rule of assessment and taxation of real and personal property."	d	183,812 (40%)	272,260 (60%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Property	This amendment was related to the "property qualification for colored men."	a	282,403 (53%)	249,802 (47%)

1866

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
ACCQ	Amendment 1	State constitutional conventions	This amendment called for a constitutional convention to revise the constitution.	a	352,854 (58%)	256,364 (42%)

1864

March 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Military service policy; Absentee and mail voting	This amendment extended the "right to vote to absent electors in military service."	a	258,795 (84%)	48,079 (16%)

1858

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State constitutional conventions	This amendment would have called for a constitutional convention to revise the constitution.	d	135,166 (49%)	141,526 (51%)

1854

February 15

Type	Title	Subject	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Contract Bidding for Canal Projects Amendment	Public works labor and contracting; Ports and harbors	a	185,771 (75%)	60,526 (25%)

1846

November 3

Type	Title	Subject	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
CCRCA	Repeal of Property Requirement for African Americans to Vote Amendment	Race and ethnicity issues; Race and suffrage	d	85,306 (28%)	223,834 (72%)
CCRCA	State Constitution of 1846 Measure	State constitution ratification	a	221,528 (71%)	92,436 (29%)

1845

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Property	This amendment repealed property qualifications for public officers.	a	114,900 (97%)	3,901 (3%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	State judiciary	This amendment was related to the "regulation of removal of judicial officers."	a	114,769 (97%)	3,689 (3%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	State constitutional conventions	This amendment called for a constitutional convention to revise the constitution.	a	213,257 (86%)	33,860 (14%)

1839

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Local government officials and elections	Provide for the annual election of city mayors	a	90,473 (100%)	382 (0%)

1835

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Taxes	This amendment was related to the "restoration of duties on salt and on goods sold at auction."	a	68,126 (89%)	8,675 (11%)

1833

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Taxes	This amendment reduced the duty on salt.	a	93,260 (92%)	7,865 (8%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Local government officials and elections	Require the mayor of New York City to be elected by the city's qualified voters annually	a	48,977 (96%)	1,936 (4%)

1826

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State executive elections	This amendment was related to the election of justices of the peace.	a	122,098 (99%)	1,663 (1%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Suffrage	This amendment was related to the extension of elective franchise.	a	127,077 (98%)	3,215 (2%)

1822

January 15

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State constitution ratification	The measure authorized the Constitution of 1821.	a	74,732 (64%)	41,402 (36%)

1821

April 24

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State constitutional conventions	This amendment called for a constitutional convention to revise the constitution.	a	109,346 (76%)	34,901 (24%)

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