Question 3 - Constitutional Amendment - Election Districts
Maryland
My vote power
Normal
Election date
November 3, 2026
How do we calculate my vote power?
What goes into the rating: Representation: how much weight one vote carries here compared with a statewide vote — the smaller the district, the more each vote counts. Decisiveness: how likely this race is to be close, based on past results or current analyst ratings, plus the number of candidates.
Representation: Normal · 50 out of 100
This district covers a large share of its state, so each vote carries about average weight — like a vote in a statewide race. About 6,206,011 people live here.
Show the representation math
score = 50 + 50 × ln(state population ÷ this district's) ÷ ln(50,000) = 50 + 50 × ln(6,206,011 ÷ 6,206,011) ÷ ln(50,000) = 50, measured against a statewide vote in MD (grades: 66+ high, 33+ normal, otherwise low; a statewide race is the 50 baseline)
Normal representation → My vote power: Normal.
Ballot Measure
This amendment would change the rules courts use to judge Maryland's congressional map. It amends Article III of the Maryland Constitution so that the existing districting standards - adjoining territory, compact form, substantially equal population, and due regard for natural boundaries and the boundaries of political subdivisions - apply only to districts used to elect state Senators and Delegates. It adds a new Section 62 stating that nothing in the Constitution, including the Declaration of Rights, provides applicable criteria for the boundaries of a congressional districting plan, and giving the General Assembly power to grant the Supreme Court of Maryland original jurisdiction to review the state's congressional districting plan. The published question and amendment text state no cost or tax change.
Read the official ballot measure (PDF)
A YES vote means
Maryland's state-constitutional districting standards would cover only General Assembly districts, so a challenge to the state's congressional map could no longer rest on those standards, and the General Assembly could send congressional-map challenges directly to the Supreme Court of Maryland.
A NO vote means
The Maryland Constitution's districting standards continue to apply as they do today, and the General Assembly gains no new power to route congressional-map review to the Supreme Court of Maryland.
Sources: elections.maryland.gov · mgaleg.maryland.gov