Ballotpedia's Tuesday Count for 2017
This chart shows on a week-by-week basis the number of ballot measures that become certified for the 2017 ballot.[1]
Certified means that the relevant state election authority legally determined that the ballot measure would be on a statewide ballot.
Ballot measures listed in the third column were certified in the week leading up to that Tuesday's count.
One of the reasons that Ballotpedia staffers create this week-by-week certification chart each year (starting in 2010) is to enable a rough estimate as the year progresses about how many total measures will ultimately be on the ballot. That's because there is a rough correlation between how many measures are certified on, say, June 15 and how many ultimately qualify for the ballot.[2]
Methodological notes:
- At times, court cases are decided that remove from the ballot a once-certified measure. If and when that happens, the change in certification status is documented in the chart.
- Some automatic ballot referrals, including constitutional convention ballot questions in some states, are mandated in a state's constitution to appear on the ballot as pre-set intervals (such as 10, 16 or 20 years). We define those as "pre-certified".
| Tuesday | Total measures certified | Added/subtracted this week | Net change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-certified: | |||
| Mandated/no date | 1 | +1 | |
| 2016: | |||
| April 15 | 2 | +1 | |
| October 4 | 3 | +1 | |
| December 20 | 4 | +1 | |
| 2017: | |||
| January 3 | 4 | +0 | |
| January 10 | 4 | +0 | |
| January 17 | 4 | +0 | |
| January 24 | 4 | +0 | |
| January 31 | 5 | +1 | |
| February 7 | 5 | +0 | |
| February 14 | 5 | +0 | |
| February 21 | 5 | +0 | |
| February 28 | 5 | +0 | |
| March 7 | 5 | +0 | |
| March 14 | 5 | +0 | |
| March 21 | 5 | +0 | |
| March 28 | 5 | +0 | |
| April 4 | 5 | +0 | |
| April 11 | 6 | +1 | |
| April 18 | 6 | +0 | |
| April 25 | 6 | +0 | |
| May 2 | 6 | +0 | |
| May 9 | 7 | +1 | |
| May 16 | 7 | +0 | |
| May 23 | 13 | +6 | |
| May 30 | 13 | +0 | |
| June 6 | 16 | +3 | |
| June 13 | 16 | +0 | |
| June 20 | 16 | +0 | |
| June 27 | 16 | +0 | |
| July 4 | 19 | +3 | |
| July 11 | 20 | +1 | |
| July 18 | 21 | +1 | |
| July 25 | 23 | +2 | |
| August 1 | 26 | +3 | |
| August 8 | 27 | +1 | |
| August 15 | 27 | By August 15, no more statewide measures beyond the 27 measures already certified for the ballot were expected to be put on the ballot. This set a seven-decade record for the lowest number of statewide ballot measures. | +0 |
Footnotes
- ↑ If it was discovered in, for example, June that the chart had been missing a measure all year that was legally certified before January 1, the chart was retroactively updated in each cell to reflect that reality.
- ↑ "Ballot measures certified over time"
