In Ohio, voters will decide on Issue 1 at a special election on Aug. 8, 2023. It’s been 97 years since a state ballot measure was decided in August in Ohio. In 1926, voters addressed one constitutional amendment, which was rejected 39.99% to 60.01%.
Let’s take a look back at the last August statewide ballot measure in Ohio.
Votes totaled 587,055 on the constitutional amendment, which appeared before voters on Aug. 10, 1926. According to The Coshocton Tribune, there were about 3.4 million eligible voters in Ohio in 1926, meaning turnout on the constitutional amendment was around 17.05%. That’s 91.91% of the turnout at the last election date in August—Aug. 2, 2022—in which 638,708 people, or 8.01% of registered voters, cast ballots in state legislative primaries.
