ERA Referenda

ERA Referenda

The ERA advocates tried to blame the defeat of,ERA on a few men in several state legislatures. But when ERA was submitted to a vote of the people it nearly always lost. The voters in the following seven states rejected ERA in statewide referenda. (Nevada was an advisory referendum on the Federal ERA; the others were State ERA referenda.)

Wisconsin 11/73 (60,000 majority against)
New York 11/75 (420,000 majority against)
New Jersey 11/75 (52% against)
Nevada 11/78 (66% against)
Florida 11/78 (60% against)
Iowa 11/80 (55% against)
Maine 11/84 (64% against)
Vermont 11/86 (51% against)
Iowa 11/92 (51% against)

(from PSR Sept 1986)