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Enacted election legislation, 2025
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Election law encompasses a wide array of issues, including voter registration, ballot access, early voting, absentee/mail-in voting, and voter identification requirements. The laws governing the administration of elections can vary significantly from state to state and even between jurisdictions within states. This article identifies election legislation enacted in 2025, including a list of all enacted bills and analysis.
As in previous years, Republican lawmakers and Republican trifecta states drove most of this activity. This trend reflected both their advantage in legislative control—holding majorities in 57 of the 99 state legislative chambers—and greater control of state governments in general, with 23 trifectas compared to 15 for Democrats.
In 2025, Republican lawmakers led efforts to:
- Implement checks of voters’ citizenship status through new data sources,
- Require absentee/mail-in ballots to arrive by Election Day to be counted,
- Ban ranked-choice voting (RCV), and
- Increase the signature requirement for initiatives to reach the ballot and raise the vote thresholds to approve those amendments once there.
Democratic lawmakers and states with Democratic trifectas remained active as well, often pushing for changes in the same areas but with different goals. Democratic lawmakers passed laws to:
- Establish state-level voting rights acts (VRAs) that grant a private right of action to enforce election laws,
- Expand automatic voter registration services,
- Provide language accommodations for voting materials and services, and
- Increase drop box availability and security measure.
Bipartisan efforts advanced legislation to:
- Align election dates,
- Revise ballot access rules for candidates,
- Increase the frequency of some voter list maintenance activities, and
- Update ballot processing procedures to speed up election results.
For more information about election legislation proposed and enacted in 2025, visit our election legislation trackerand see our State of Election Administration Legislation 2025 Mid-Year Report.
Enacted bills
The embedded table below lists all bills enacted in 2025. The following information is included for each bill:
- State
- Bill number
- Official bill name or caption
- Most recent action date
- Legislative status
- Sponsor party
- Topics dealt with by the bill
Bills are organized by state and then by most recent action. The table displays up to 100 results. To view more bills, use the arrows in the upper-right corner. Clicking on a bill will open its page on Ballotpedia's Election Administration Legislation Tracker, which includes bill details and a summary.
Analysis
As of August 28, 2025, states have enacted 566 election-related bills compared to 366 at this point in 2024, 581 in 2023, and 215 in 2022. Click here to view all enacted bills.
See also
- Ballotpedia's election legislation tracker
- Ballotpedia's The Ballot Bulletin
- Election laws and legislation in the United States
- Enacted election legislation, 2024
- Enacted election legislation, 2023
- Enacted election legislation, 2022
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