2026 ELECTION RESEARCH · VA

Virginia ballot questions

Source review and research limits are shown for each question. An unknown detail is not treated as a fact.

Evidence & research limitsReviewed October 21, 2026

The Department of Elections inventory has exactly three Statewide rows, Questions 1-3, all present in the guide. All three official explanations and proposed constitutional texts were read. The coverage-summary text describing the statewide inventory as incomplete conflicts with its inventoryVerified=true flag; statewide inventory can be marked verified while separate local/candidate/policy gaps remain explicit.

Question inventoryOfficial list checked

Candidate recordsSource review partial; see scope

EndorsementsPublished statements only; coverage incomplete

What has and has not been checked

The official federal candidate page was read for selected entries, and both District 20 House of Delegates special-election candidates, Sonia Ruth Vasquez Luna and Nathaniel Nate Fritzen, were confirmed with parties and district in the all-offices list. The complete 40-name guide was not independently compared entry by entry in this pass, and the much larger local list remains outside that collection.

The guide has 64 local-question records. This pass confirmed their official inventory source exists but did not reverify each local question, fiscal figure or jurisdiction assignment. The official all-offices page includes many local candidates not covered by the 40-name guide.

Current-officeholder rosters are dated snapshots, not a guarantee of current service. Individual biographies, policy claims and controversies are unknown unless a separate review is shown. An unknown endorsement does not mean no endorsement exists.

Candidate biographies, controversies, policy descriptions and incumbency were not exhaustively reverified in this review. A verified name/party/office listing is not verification of those separate claims.
The endorsement records below are affirmative sourced findings, not an exhaustive list of endorsements. A missing endorsement record means unknown or not reviewed, never that a candidate has no endorsements.
Statewide ballot inventory verification does not certify every county, municipality, school district, special district, precinct assignment or address lookup.
Recorded positions come from the Arlington County Democratic Committee and Republican Party of Virginia Beach. Separate statewide-party endorsements have not been verified.
Coverage-summary statewide-inventory prose is internally inconsistent and should be updated without implying all local content is verified.

Virginia Department of Elections: November 2026 statewide amendments and local referendums

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STATEWIDE1Question

Reproductive freedom and pregnancy-related health decisions

Source review availableSee exactly what was checked

The fields listed below were checked against the linked sources on October 21, 2026. Future outcomes, final contract awards and individual tax bills are not established by this review.

Checked: Title, Summary, Yes vote, No vote, Beneficiaries, Fiscal estimate, Tradeoffs, Ballot wording.

Unknown: Named organizations.

Virginia Department of Elections: Question 1 official explanation Virginia Department of Elections: November 2026 statewide amendments and local referendums

Creates a constitutional right to make reproductive-health decisions, protects people receiving or helping provide that care, and limits future state restrictions. The amendment permits third-trimester abortion restrictions with exceptions for the patient’s physical or mental health and pregnancies that cannot survive.

YES

Adds the reproductive-freedom protections and rules for permissible restrictions to the state Constitution.

Leaves current constitutional language unchanged; this vote alone does not enact a new abortion ban.

Who benefits or is affected

People seeking contraception, fertility treatment, pregnancy care or abortion, and people providing or voluntarily helping that care. These are legal protections, not a grant to named businesses.

Costs and tradeoffs

No bond or specified new tax. The official explanation supplies no reliable per-voter fiscal estimate. Administrative and litigation effects are not quantified.

The proposal protects the specified reproductive-health decisions through a constitutional right and restricts ordinary legislative action.

It permits third-trimester abortion restrictions subject to the stated physical-health, mental-health and nonviability exceptions.

A NO vote leaves the Constitution unchanged and does not itself enact a new abortion ban. No quantified litigation or implementation cost is supplied by the official explanation.

Organizations named in the records

Recipient names: unknown. No separately verified allocation or contract-award list is recorded for this question. This does not mean no recipients exist.

Published party positions

Democratic Party

support

Arlington County Democratic Committee

The county Democratic committee formally endorsed all three amendments. This is a county-party decision, not an established statewide Democratic Party position.

Published 2026-07-03 · Source checked 2026-10-21

Arlington Democrats: committee endorsement of all three constitutional amendments, July 3, 2026

Republican Party

oppose

Republican Party of Virginia Beach

The local Republican party voter guide says Vote NO on all three amendments. This is the Virginia Beach party organization, not a verified position of the statewide Republican Party of Virginia.

Publication date not stated · Source checked 2026-10-21

Republican Party of Virginia Beach: 2026 voter guide, Vote No on all three amendments

A position applies to the named organization, not every party member. Missing evidence does not establish neutrality. We do not infer a party’s position from its ideology or a legislator’s vote.

Read the official wording

Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to (i) protect the freedom to make personal decisions about prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, abortion, miscarriage management, and fertility care; (ii) protect doctors, nurses, and patients from being punished for these decisions; and (iii) allow for restrictions on access to abortion during the third trimester of pregnancy except when the patient's health is at risk or the pregnancy cannot survive?

Virginia Department of Elections: Question 1 official explanation Virginia Department of Elections: November 2026 statewide amendments and local referendums

STATEWIDE2Question

Marriage equality

Source review availableSee exactly what was checked

The fields listed below were checked against the linked sources on October 21, 2026. Future outcomes, final contract awards and individual tax bills are not established by this review.

Checked: Title, Summary, Yes vote, No vote, Beneficiaries, Fiscal estimate, Tradeoffs, Ballot wording.

Unknown: Named organizations.

Virginia Department of Elections: Question 2 official explanation Virginia Department of Elections: November 2026 statewide amendments and local referendums

Removes Virginia’s same-sex-marriage ban from its Constitution and protects marriage between two adults regardless of sex, gender or race. All legally valid marriages would receive equal treatment.

YES

Replaces the state constitutional ban with an affirmative marriage-equality guarantee.

Keeps the existing words in the state Constitution. The current ban remains unenforceable under controlling federal marriage-equality law; a no vote does not itself invalidate existing marriages.

Who benefits or is affected

Same-sex and interracial couples and their families gain an explicit state constitutional guarantee. No company receives an appropriation.

Costs and tradeoffs

No bond, appropriation or specified tax. No verified per-voter cost estimate was published in the official explanation.

Current federal law already prevents enforcement of the same-sex-marriage prohibition, according to the official explanation.

A YES vote removes that language and adds independent state constitutional protection for equal marriage.

A NO vote retains the existing words but does not itself invalidate marriages protected by controlling federal law.

Organizations named in the records

Recipient names: unknown. No separately verified allocation or contract-award list is recorded for this question. This does not mean no recipients exist.

Published party positions

Democratic Party

support

Arlington County Democratic Committee

The county Democratic committee formally endorsed all three amendments. This is a county-party decision, not an established statewide Democratic Party position.

Published 2026-07-03 · Source checked 2026-10-21

Arlington Democrats: committee endorsement of all three constitutional amendments, July 3, 2026

Republican Party

oppose

Republican Party of Virginia Beach

The local Republican party voter guide says Vote NO on all three amendments. This is the Virginia Beach party organization, not a verified position of the statewide Republican Party of Virginia.

Publication date not stated · Source checked 2026-10-21

Republican Party of Virginia Beach: 2026 voter guide, Vote No on all three amendments

A position applies to the named organization, not every party member. Missing evidence does not establish neutrality. We do not infer a party’s position from its ideology or a legislator’s vote.

Read the official wording

Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to (i) remove the ban on same-sex marriage; (ii) affirm that two adults may marry regardless of sex, gender, or race; and (iii) require all legally valid marriages to be treated equally under the law?

Virginia Department of Elections: Question 2 official explanation Virginia Department of Elections: November 2026 statewide amendments and local referendums

STATEWIDE3Question

Voting rights after release from incarceration

Source review availableSee exactly what was checked

The fields listed below were checked against the linked sources on October 21, 2026. Future outcomes, final contract awards and individual tax bills are not established by this review.

Checked: Title, Summary, Yes vote, No vote, Beneficiaries, Fiscal estimate, Tradeoffs, Ballot wording.

Unknown: Named organizations.

Virginia Department of Elections: Question 3 official explanation Virginia Department of Elections: November 2026 statewide amendments and local referendums

Makes voting a fundamental right, restores voting rights automatically after release from incarceration for a felony, and narrows incapacity-based disqualification to inability to understand the act of voting.

YES

Restores eligibility on release instead of requiring the governor to restore rights individually. Official guidance says related political rights, including jury service, holding public office and notary service, also return.

Retains the existing felony-disqualification and restoration system and existing incapacity language.

Who benefits or is affected

People released from incarceration for a felony regain voting eligibility automatically, including while on probation or parole; ordinary registration requirements still apply. The incapacity rule is narrowed to the ability to understand voting. The official explanation also identifies restored jury-service, public-office and notary rights. There is no grant or payment to a company.

Costs and tradeoffs

No bond or specified tax. Updating voter eligibility systems could require administration; the official explanation does not establish a reliable per-voter fiscal figure.

Restoration occurs after release from incarceration, rather than after completion of probation, parole or all financial obligations.

People incarcerated for felony convictions remain ineligible.

The new incapacity wording concerns the ability to understand voting. Registration requirements still apply after restoration.

Organizations named in the records

Recipient names: unknown. No separately verified allocation or contract-award list is recorded for this question. This does not mean no recipients exist.

Published party positions

Democratic Party

support

Arlington County Democratic Committee

The county Democratic committee formally endorsed all three amendments. This is a county-party decision, not an established statewide Democratic Party position.

Published 2026-07-03 · Source checked 2026-10-21

Arlington Democrats: committee endorsement of all three constitutional amendments, July 3, 2026

Republican Party

oppose

Republican Party of Virginia Beach

The local Republican party voter guide says Vote NO on all three amendments. This is the Virginia Beach party organization, not a verified position of the statewide Republican Party of Virginia.

Publication date not stated · Source checked 2026-10-21

Republican Party of Virginia Beach: 2026 voter guide, Vote No on all three amendments

A position applies to the named organization, not every party member. Missing evidence does not establish neutrality. We do not infer a party’s position from its ideology or a legislator’s vote.

Read the official wording

Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended (i) to provide for the fundamental right to vote in the Commonwealth, (ii) to revise the qualifications of voters so that a person convicted of a felony is not entitled to vote during his period of incarceration but is automatically invested with the right to vote upon release from incarceration, and (iii) to update the existing prohibition on voting by persons found to be mentally incompetent to instead apply to persons who have been found to lack the capacity to understand the act of voting?

Virginia Department of Elections: Question 3 official explanation Virginia Department of Elections: November 2026 statewide amendments and local referendums

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