Macon County voters backed the losing side on four of Missouri’s five statewide ballot measures Tuesday, including an abortion amendment that two-thirds of the county supported and the state rejected, according to unofficial results from the Missouri secretary of state.
Amendment 3 failed statewide with 44.51 percent yes and 55.49 percent no. It would have repealed the abortion-rights amendment voters approved in 2024, allowed abortion only in medical emergencies, cases of rape and incest before 12 weeks, and fetal anomalies, and banned gender transition procedures for minors. In Macon County it drew 66.63 percent yes, 3,267 votes to 1,636, about 22 points ahead of the statewide yes vote, the widest gap among the five measures. The 2024 amendment stays in place.
The measure began as a resolution sponsored by Rep. Ed Lewis, a Moberly Republican whose district includes Macon County, as the Chronicle reported in September.
Proposition A, the referendum on the congressional map the legislature passed in 2025, failed statewide with 61.84 percent voting no. Macon County approved it with 55 percent yes, 2,652 to 2,170. The vote keeps the 2022 districts. Macon County sits in the 6th Congressional District under either map.
Amendment 6, an initiative petition to make the initiative and referendum process a fundamental right and require 80 percent of both legislative chambers to change laws enacted by initiative, passed statewide with 59.97 percent yes. Macon County voted against it, 61.32 percent no, 2,981 to 1,880. The county’s yes share ran about 21 percentage points behind the state’s.
Amendment 7, which would have created the "Show-Me Prosperity Fund" endowment and eliminated state-imposed taxes once its earnings could replace them, failed statewide with 60.55 percent no. Macon County narrowly favored it, 50.73 percent yes, 2,460 to 2,389.
Macon County and the state agreed only on Amendment 8, which writes the four-year elected sheriff into the constitution and allows a sheriff to be removed only through a quo warranto action brought by the attorney general. It passed statewide with 50.99 percent yes, a margin of about 40,800 votes out of more than 2 million. Macon County approved it with 66.78 percent, 3,246 to 1,615.
In the only statewide race, Republican Scott Fitzpatrick won reelection as state auditor with 50.16 percent of the statewide vote to 47.20 percent for Democrat Quentin Wilson and 2.64 percent for Libertarian Dustin Coffell. Macon County gave Fitzpatrick 74.32 percent, about 24 points better than his statewide showing. Wilson received 23.26 percent in the county.
The county also ran well ahead of the district in the 6th Congressional District race. Republican Chris Stigall won the district with 58.65 percent and took 73.32 percent in Macon County. Democrat Josh Smead received 38.95 percent across the district and 24.86 percent in the county.
Voters statewide retained Missouri Supreme Court Judge Paul C. Wilson with 62.84 percent. Macon County voted 64.85 percent to retain. Lisa White Hardwick was retained on the Court of Appeals, Western District, with 67.61 percent across the district and 69.14 percent in Macon County.
All 3,214 precincts statewide and all 12 in Macon County had reported by the secretary of state’s 8 a.m. update Wednesday. All results are unofficial until certified.