Two citizen-initiated ballot measures will appear on the Nov. 4, 2025, ballot in Maine—Question 1 and Question 2. Proponents of a ballot initiative collect petition signatures from a certain minimum number of registered voters in a state. For 2025, the average signature validity rate was 93.0%.

Sponsors of Question 1 submitted 4,410 petition forms containing 171,562 signatures to the Secretary of State’s office. The office reviewed the first 2,430 petition forms as the initial sample and found 86,904 valid signatures, 19,222 more than required. This resulted in a 92.3% validity rate. Because the threshold was met, the petition was certified. Applying the same validity rate to all submitted petition sheets, an estimated 158,293 signatures were valid.

For Question 2, the Secretary of State’s office reviewed all submitted petition forms. Sponsors filed 79,981 signatures, of which 74,888 were determined to be valid, resulting in a signature validity rate of 93.6%.

On average, the two campaigns for the initiatives this year submitted 125,772 signatures. The average signature validity rate was 93.0%, which is both higher than the Maine average between 2017 and 2025 (88.4%) and the highest yearly average since Ballotpedia began gathering comprehensive data in 2017.

This year, the campaigns for initiatives submitted an average of 185.9% of the required number of signatures to place the initiative on the ballot. This is higher than the national average for 2017 to 2025, which is 142.0%. It is also higher than the Maine average in the same time period, which is 134.6%. 

From 2017 to 2025, Ballotpedia analyzed signature data for 187 initiatives. The average signature validity rate for initiatives certified to appear on the ballot from 2017 to 2025 was 78.8%.