Missourians narrowly voted to legalize sports betting on Tuesday, Nov. 5, making Missouri the latest state to allow gambling on major sporting events. Unofficial results show 50.1% of residents voted in favor of legalizing sports betting, while 49.9% voted ...

Voters passed Amendment 2, clearing the way for sports betting in Missouri. Here's what we know so far about when it will go to market.

In most legal sports betting states it has taken six to nine months to approve and launch sportsbooks. That would put a go-live date sometime around summer 2025. The sportsbooks themselves will also push to go live before the fall football season, perennially the most lucrative time of the year.

According to the amendment’s language, via the Missouri Secretary of State’s website, the amendment directs the Missouri Gaming Commission to make sports betting available in the state

Bill DeWitt III, president of the St. Louis Cardinals, applauded the results Wednesday morning. “It's a great result for Missouri,” he said. “And it's good for the teams.”

By the narrowest of margins, another state voted to make sports betting legal on Tuesday.RELATED: Dabo Swinney got rejected at the voting booth on Election DayThirty-nine states now have legalized sports gambling after Missouri voters passed Amendment 2,