1986 - Statewide - Question 8Shall the Commonwealth on Massachusetts urge the President of the United States and the United States Congress to enact a national acid rain control program which would require a fifty percent reduction in total national sulfur dioxide emmisions by the year nineteen hundred and ninety-five and which would allocate the required reductions in sulfur dioxide emmisions. and the costs of achieving those reductions, equitably among the states?

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County			Yes	No	Blanks	Total Votes Cast
Barnstable More »			52,728	9,873	7,133	69,734
Berkshire More »			31,609	6,068	6,418	44,095
Bristol More »			90,305	22,077	22,800	135,182
Dukes More »			3,786	604	375	4,765
Essex More »			146,562	34,454	26,157	207,173
Franklin More »			16,917	3,249	1,576	21,742
Hampden More »			83,044	17,789	16,614	117,447
Hampshire More »			32,268	5,121	3,318	40,707
Middlesex More »			327,443	69,834	55,962	453,239
Nantucket More »			1,672	268	201	2,141
Norfolk More »			152,727	32,267	23,010	208,004
Plymouth More »			87,122	23,464	10,836	121,422
Suffolk More »			95,417	24,240	38,238	157,895
Worcester More »			140,762	31,071	21,897	193,730
Totals			1,262,362	280,379	234,535	1,777,276