Amendment 3 passed with about 62.01% Yes on 3 November 2026 with 99% of the expected vote in (NBC 6 South Florida), with WUSF citing the News Service of Florida and CBS12 at 62%, inside the 60% to 66% band and more than 0.5 points from either edge (all off-list); the state results site is behind a Cloudflare check.
History. None of the nine property tax cuts from 2016 to 2024 landed between 60% and 66%. The three failures got 57.3% to 58.7%, and the six that passed got at least 66.0%.
Hunch. A state estimate of 16 June puts Amendment 3's first-year cost to local budgets at $4.95bn, larger than any of the nine earlier cuts.
The close-pass market resolves on the same state results page: YES if the yes share, counted from the raw yes and no votes, is at least 60.00% and below 66.00%, and NO otherwise. If the share is within 0.5 points of 60% or 66%, it resolves on the day the state publishes its certified count, with The Guardian and BBC News as backups.
We looked for cases where Florida lawmakers asked voters to cut property tax at a November general election, after the 60% rule came in, while local property tax had grown by a fifth or more in three years. We found nine such votes from 2016 to 2024, on five election days. All nine got more yes votes than no votes, and six reached 60%.