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This page provides a list of statewide ballot measures that appeared before voters in 1925.

In the United States, a ballot measure is a law, issue, or question that appears on a statewide or local ballot for voters of that jurisdiction to decide.

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## Contents

* 1 Historical Ballot Measure Factbooks
* 2 List of ballot measures by state
* 3 Other years
* 4 See also
* 5 Footnotes

## Historical Ballot Measure Factbooks[edit]

See also: Historical Ballot Measures (HBM) Factbooks

The inventory of statewide ballot measures is part of Ballotpedia's Historical Ballot Measure Factbooks, which document nearly 200 years of direct democracy in the United States. This ongoing research effort will provide an unparalleled resource for researchers, reporters, and voters on how ballot measures have evolved, the issues they've covered, and the role they have played in our civic life. Click here to access the state historical ballot measure factbooks.

## List of ballot measures by state[edit]

### Arizona

See also: Arizona 1925 ballot measures

September 29

Type| Title| Subject| Description| Result| Yes Votes| No Votes

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LRCA

| Measure Nos. 100-101| Workers' compensation laws| Provide for the extension of workmen's compensation|

11,879 (57%)

9,078 (43%)

### Maine

See also: Maine 1925 ballot measures

December 7

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| Question 1| Time standards| Establish the standard time in Maine as based on the mean astronomical time of the seventy-fifth degree of longitude west from Greenwich, also known as Standard Eastern Time|

34,414 (55%)

28,454 (45%)

| Question 2| Food policy; Business regulations| Define certain grades of milk offered for sale in the state| d|

19,607 (34%)

38,056 (66%)

September 14

Type| Title| Subject| Description| Result| Yes Votes| No Votes

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| Incorporation of Dexter P. Cooper Measure| Hydroelectric energy| Incorporate Dexter P. Cooper for the purpose of developing and utilizing the power of the tides in the Bay of Fundy and the waters adjacent to it|

53,547 (88%)

7,220 (12%)

LRCA

| Question 1| Highways and bridges; Bond issues| Authorize bonds to fund the building of a bridge across the Kennebec River between the city of Bath and the town of Woolwich|

54,107 (87%)

8,228 (13%)

LRCA

| Question 2| Highways and bridges; Bond issues| Increase the amount of bonds that could be issued to fund building state highways and intrastate, interstate and international bridges to $16 million|

49,821 (83%)

10,332 (17%)

### New York

See also: New York 1925 ballot measures

November 3

Type| Title| Subject| Description| Result| Yes Votes| No Votes

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| Amendment 1| Bond issues; Public works labor and contracting| Authorize a 10 million bond issue for the construction of public buildings|

960,385 (51%)

937,990 (49%)

LRCA

| Amendment 2| Railways; Bond issues| Authorize a 3 hundred million bond issue for the elimination of railroad grade crossings|

1,032,109 (55%)

859,702 (45%)

LRCA

| Amendment 3| Administrative organization| Abolish a number of constitutional offices and establish twenty civil departments of the state government which shall exercise all the civil, administrative and executive functions of the state government, be approved?|

1,048,087 (57%)

775,768 (43%)

LRCA

| Amendment 4| State judiciary structure| Enact changes related to the organization of the state judicial system|

1,090,632 (61%)

711,018 (39%)

### Ohio

See also: Ohio 1925 ballot measures

November 3

Type| Title| Subject| Description| Result| Yes Votes| No Votes

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| Indebtedness Limitations for Political Subdivisions Amendment| State and local government budgets, spending, and finance| Place restrictions on the incurring of indebtedness by political subdivisions.| d|

450,218 (46%)

535,251 (54%)

LRCA

| Taxation of Real Estate, Tangible Property, and Intangible Property Amendment| Taxes; Property| Establish uniform taxation rules on all real estate and tangible property and establish taxation on intangible property.| d|

435,944 (47%)

501,221 (53%)

LRCA

| Term Lengths for Executive and Elective County Officials Amendment| State executive official measures; County and municipal governance| Establish term lengths for a variety of executive and elective county offices.| d|

325,451 (37%)

543,183 (63%)

## Other years[edit]

Click on a year in the following table to view that year’s state ballot measures.

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## Footnotes[edit]

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