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| State | Year | Name | Type | Topics | Description | Status | Yes Votes Total | No Votes Total | Mov |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 1944 | Board of Education Amendment | LRCA | Administrative organization, Public education governance | Modify the North Carolina State Board of Education’s membership | Approved | 60.46% (164,723) | 39.54% (107,742) | 20.91% |
| North Carolina | 1944 | Commissioner Officers Amendment | LRCA | State executive official measures, Administration of government | Establish commissioners of agriculture, labor, and insurance as constitutional officers on the counc... | Approved | 68.82% (234,683) | 31.18% (106,321) | 37.64% |
| North Carolina | 1944 | Homestead Deeds Amendment | LRCA | Family-related policy | Require a wife's signature to make a homestead deed valid | Approved | 54.19% (183,802) | 45.81% (155,359) | 8.39% |
| North Carolina | 1944 | Lieutenant Governor Compensation Amendment | LRCA | Salaries of government officials, State executive official measures | Provide fixed compensation by the general assembly for the lieutenant governor. | Approved | 56.31% (181,083) | 43.69% (140,477) | 12.63% |
| North Carolina | 1944 | Notaries Public in Multiple Offices Amendment | LRCA | Administration of government | Exempt notaries public from rules against holding multiple offices simultaneously. | Approved | 61.61% (205,373) | 38.39% (127,965) | 23.22% |
| North Dakota | 1944 | Financing Highway Construction Initiative | CISS | Transportation, Bond issues | Approved | 72.69% (128,421) | 27.31% (48,253) | 45.38% | |
| North Dakota | 1944 | Legislative Pay Amendment | LRCA | Salaries of government officials | Defeated | 49.67% (85,212) | 50.33% (86,340) | 0.66% | |
| North Dakota | 1944 | Liquor Sale Restriction Initiative | CISS | Business regulations, Alcohol laws | Defeated | 49.22% (94,071) | 50.78% (97,058) | 1.56% | |
| North Dakota | 1944 | Municipal Liquor Stores Amendment | LRCA | County and municipal governance, Alcohol laws | Defeated | 46.02% (85,874) | 53.98% (100,726) | 7.96% | |
| Ohio | 1944 | Revision of Judicial Jurisdiction and Procedures Amendment | LRCA | State judiciary | Revise judicial procedures and jurisdictions and provide means for laws to be passed relative to the... | Approved | 66.87% (1,279,216) | 33.13% (633,813) | 33.74% |
| Ohio | 1944 | Supreme Court Temporary Judges Amendment (1944) | LRCA | State judiciary | Allow appeals court judges to temporarily stand in place of absent supreme court judges if they are ... | Approved | 70.05% (1,429,635) | 29.95% (611,276) | 40.10% |
| Oregon | 1944 | Measure Nos. 300-301 | LRCA | Banking policy | Authorize banks to secure depositors through membership in the federal deposit insurance corporation... | Approved | 66.40% (228,744) | 33.60% (115,745) | 32.80% |
| Oregon | 1944 | Measure Nos. 302-303 | LRCA | County and municipal governance | Allow counties, with a majority vote, to adopt a county manager and commission form of county govern... | Approved | 53.21% (175,716) | 46.79% (154,504) | 6.42% |
| Oregon | 1944 | Measure Nos. 304-305 | LRCA | Taxes, Veterans policy | Authorize state debt up to three percent of assessed property value for WWII veteran home loans and ... | Approved | 51.62% (190,520) | 48.38% (178,581) | 3.23% |
| Oregon | 1944 | Measure Nos. 306-307 | LRCA | Voting rights for persons with criminal convictions | Forfeit voting rights for convictions punishable by imprisonment and replace the term “insane” for “... | Approved | 54.06% (183,855) | 45.94% (156,219) | 8.13% |
| Oregon | 1944 | Measure Nos. 308-309 | LRSS | Education, Veterans policy | Provide educational aid to World War II veterans and authorize a two-tenths of a mill property tax t... | Approved | 63.79% (238,350) | 36.21% (135,317) | 27.57% |
| Oregon | 1944 | Measure Nos. 310-311 | LRSS | Taxes | Implement retail sales tax on tangible property and allocate the revenue to support old-age assistan... | Defeated | 26.42% (96,697) | 73.58% (269,276) | 47.16% |
| Oregon | 1944 | Measure Nos. 312-313 | VR | Business regulations, Alcohol laws | Require all intoxicating liquors with over fourteen percent alcohol to be sold exclusively by the li... | Approved | 55.95% (228,853) | 44.05% (180,158) | 11.91% |
| Oregon | 1944 | Measure Nos. 314-315 | CICA | Education, Taxes | Create a state fund to support public elementary and secondary schools using tax revenues for school... | Defeated | 48.65% (177,153) | 51.35% (186,976) | 2.70% |
| Oregon | 1944 | Measure Nos. 316-317 | CICA | Taxes, Public assistance programs | Levy a three to five percent gross income tax to create a retirement and disability fund. | Defeated | 45.10% (180,691) | 54.90% (219,981) | 9.81% |
| South Dakota | 1944 | Amendment A | LRCA | Public education funding, Public economic investment policy | Restrict loans on educational funds to one-third of value | Defeated | 45.34% (77,021) | 54.66% (92,842) | 9.31% |
| South Dakota | 1944 | Amendment B | LRCA | Administrative organization, Public education governance | Establish State Charitable and Penal Institutions and a state-appointed board to oversee educational... | Approved | 54.46% (86,392) | 45.54% (72,253) | 8.91% |
| Texas | 1944 | Proposition 1 | LRCA | Public employee retirement funds, County and municipal governance | Allow cities and towns to provide a system of retirement and disability pensions for city officers a... | Approved | 61.29% (258,036) | 38.71% (162,953) | 22.59% |
| Texas | 1944 | Proposition 2 | LRCA | Public employee retirement funds, State legislatures measures | Allow the legislature to provide a state retirement and disability pensions for city staff with volu... | Approved | 59.37% (242,579) | 40.63% (166,007) | 18.74% |
| Texas | 1944 | Proposition 3 | LRCA | Taxes, County and municipal governance | Authorize county commissioners to reallocate city, county, road and bridge, public improvement and j... | Approved | 62.37% (228,346) | 37.63% (137,761) | 24.74% |
| Utah | 1944 | Amendment 1 | LRCA | State judiciary structure, State judicial selection | Create a system to select state judges | Approved | 78.23% (84,122) | 21.77% (23,414) | 56.45% |
| Utah | 1944 | Amendment 2 | LRCA | Salaries of government officials | Change the compensation levels of the legislature | Approved | 72.27% (74,296) | 27.73% (28,510) | 44.54% |
| Virginia | 1944 | Board for the Review of Capital Punishment, Reprieves, and Pardons Amendment | LRCA | Death penalty, Criminal sentencing | Allow the General Assembly to create a board, to be appointed by the governor, to commute capital pu... | Approved | 74.20% (176,545) | 25.80% (61,399) | 48.39% |
| Virginia | 1944 | Public School Funding from the Literary Fund Amendment | LRCA | Revenue allocation, Public education funding | Assign funds from the principal of literary fund to public school purposes | Approved | 61.18% (140,353) | 38.82% (89,048) | 22.36% |
| Washington | 1944 | HJR 1 | LRCA | Property taxes | Provide for a constitutional amendment that limits the tax on real and personal property to forty mi... | Approved | 66.60% (357,488) | 33.40% (179,273) | 33.20% |
| Washington | 1944 | HJR 4 | LRCA | Highways and bridges, Fuel taxes | Provide for a constitutional amendment that limits revenue from vehicle-related fees and taxes to be... | Approved | 69.03% (358,581) | 30.97% (160,898) | 38.05% |
| Washington | 1944 | Initiative 157 | CISS | Public assistance programs | Expand social security and unemployment aid to veterans and government employees and grants to blind... | Defeated | 37.31% (240,565) | 62.69% (404,256) | 25.39% |
| Washington | 1944 | Initiative 158 | CISS | Public assistance programs, Income taxes, Tax and revenue administration | Establish three percent income tax to fund $60 monthly payments to the elderly, blind, disabled and ... | Defeated | 29.65% (184,405) | 70.35% (437,502) | 40.70% |
| Washington | 1944 | Referendum 25 | VR | Utility policy | Allow the formation of joint public utility districts | Defeated | 44.40% (297,919) | 55.60% (373,051) | 11.20% |
| Maine | 1944 | Highway Use Fun Amendment | LRCA | Highways and bridges, Revenue allocation | Use revenues derived from the taxation of vehicles and fuels used on public highways for public high... | Approved | 80.82% (139,805) | 19.18% (33,172) | 61.65% |
| Oklahoma | 1944 | State Question 309 | LRCA | Parole policy, Administrative organization | Create a Pardon and Parole Board and require reporting all clemency acts to the Legislature. | Approved | 62.89% (140,496) | 37.11% (82,911) | 25.78% |
| Oklahoma | 1944 | State Question 310 | LRCA | Administration of government, Education | Create a nine-member Board of Regents for Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, including th... | Approved | 52.03% (117,194) | 47.97% (108,047) | 4.06% |
| Oklahoma | 1944 | State Question 311 | LRCA | Administration of government, Education | Create a seven-member Board of Regents for the University of Oklahoma, appointed by the Governor wit... | Approved | 52.34% (109,886) | 47.66% (100,049) | 4.69% |
| Oklahoma | 1944 | State Question 312 | LRSS | Primary election systems, Runoff elections | Provide for runoff primary elections | Approved | 58.22% (131,071) | 41.78% (94,060) | 16.44% |
| Oklahoma | 1944 | State Question 313 | LRCA | State and local government budgets, spending, and finance | Require surplus state general revenue funds to be placed in a sinking fund to pay off state bonded d... | Approved | 69.44% (145,039) | 30.56% (63,816) | 38.89% |
| North Dakota | 1944 | Repeal State Income Tax Laws Initiative | CISS | Taxes | Defeated | 45.50% (50,378) | 54.50% (60,355) | 9.01% | |
| North Dakota | 1944 | Sale of School and Public Lands Measure | LRSS | Administration of government | Approved | 53.53% (56,033) | 46.47% (48,641) | 7.06% | |
| North Dakota | 1944 | State Equalization Fund Levy Measure | LRSS | Taxes | Defeated | 43.45% (47,026) | 56.55% (61,200) | 13.10% | |
| California | 1944 | Proposition 1 | LRCA | Property, Taxes | Remove the property tax exemption from federal property, except from property exempted under federal... | Approved | 68.55% (1,059,398) | 31.45% (485,959) | 37.11% |
| Wisconsin | 1944 | Question 1 | LRAQ | Taxes, Education | Levy a two-tenths of a cent per dollar property tax to aid high schools | Defeated | 24.20% (131,004) | 75.80% (410,315) | 51.60% |
| Kentucky | 1943 | Workers' Compensation Referendum | LRCA | Workers' compensation laws | Defeated | ||||
| New Jersey | 1943 | Public Question No. 1 | LRSS | Constitutional wording changes | An act authorized the legislature to agree to a revised constitution which reapportioned both legisl... | Approved | 62.12% (395,631) | 37.88% (241,297) | 24.23% |
| New York | 1943 | Amendment 1 | LRCA | Administrative organization | Establish a department of commerce in the state government | Approved | 71.51% (600,495) | 28.49% (239,222) | 43.02% |
| New York | 1943 | Amendment 2 | LRCA | Tax and revenue administration | Authorize the legislature to establish a fund or funds for tax revenue stabilization reserves and re... | Approved | 69.43% (558,726) | 30.57% (246,011) | 38.86% |
| New York | 1943 | Amendment 3 | LRCA | Redistricting policy | Create assembly districts in counties that have been apportioned a greater number of assemblymen tha... | Defeated | 49.84% (385,025) | 50.16% (387,496) | 0.32% |