diff --git a/src/hooks/governance/useGovernanceCache.ts b/src/hooks/governance/useGovernanceCache.ts
index 51f5f565b1..8ca3d34e4c 100644
--- a/src/hooks/governance/useGovernanceCache.ts
+++ b/src/hooks/governance/useGovernanceCache.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * proposals / votes / payloads; user & protocol state is read on-chain in
  * separate hooks.
  */
-import { useInfiniteQuery, useQuery } from '@tanstack/react-query';
+import { keepPreviousData, useInfiniteQuery, useQuery } from '@tanstack/react-query';
 import { Contract } from 'ethers';
 import {
   adaptCacheProposalToDetail,
@@ -96,12 +96,19 @@ const useEnsNames = (proposalId: number, addresses: string[]) => {
 // Proposals — list / search / detail
 // ============================================
 
-/** Paginated proposals list, adapted to the canonical list item type. */
-export const useGovernanceProposals = () =>
+/**
+ * Paginated proposals list, adapted to the canonical list item type. `stateFilter` is a cache
+ * state (`executed`, `active`, …) applied server-side, so every page holds matching proposals.
+ */
+export const useGovernanceProposals = (stateFilter?: string) =>
   useInfiniteQuery({
-    queryKey: queryKeysFactory.governanceCacheProposals(),
+    queryKey: queryKeysFactory.governanceCacheProposals(stateFilter),
     queryFn: async ({ pageParam = 0 }) => {
-      const proposals = await getProposals(PROPOSALS_PAGE_SIZE, pageParam * PROPOSALS_PAGE_SIZE);
+      const proposals = await getProposals(
+        PROPOSALS_PAGE_SIZE,
+        pageParam * PROPOSALS_PAGE_SIZE,
+        stateFilter
+      );
       return { proposals: proposals.map(adaptCacheProposalToListItem) };
     },
     initialPageParam: 0,
@@ -121,6 +128,7 @@ export const useGovernanceProposalsSearch = (query: string) => {
       return results.map(adaptCacheProposalToListItem);
     },
     enabled: query.trim() !== '',
+    placeholderData: keepPreviousData,
     ...CACHE_QUERY_OPTIONS,
   });
   return { results: (data ?? []) as ProposalListItem[], loading: isFetching };
diff --git a/src/modules/governance/ProposalsV3List.tsx b/src/modules/governance/ProposalsV3List.tsx
index 6eaaf31b7d..106657d25c 100644
--- a/src/modules/governance/ProposalsV3List.tsx
+++ b/src/modules/governance/ProposalsV3List.tsx
@@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ import { GOVERNANCE_PAGE } from 'src/utils/events';
 import { figVars } from 'src/utils/figmaColors';
 import { motion } from 'src/utils/motion';
 
+import { badgeToCacheState } from './adapters';
 import { ProposalListHeader } from './ProposalListHeader';
-import { StateBadge, stringToState } from './StateBadge';
+import { ProposalBadgeState, StateBadge } from './StateBadge';
 import { ProposalListItem } from './types';
 import { VoteBar } from './VoteBar';
 
@@ -162,7 +163,8 @@ const ProposalListSkeleton = () => {
 
 export const ProposalsV3List = () => {
   const [proposalFilter, setProposalFilter] = useState<string>('all');
-  const filterState = stringToState(proposalFilter);
+  // The dropdown's values are the badge labels; the backend filters on cache states.
+  const filterBadge = proposalFilter === 'all' ? undefined : (proposalFilter as ProposalBadgeState);
 
   const [searchTerm, setSearchTerm] = useState<string>('');
 
@@ -174,7 +176,7 @@ export const ProposalsV3List = () => {
     isFetching: loadingProposals,
     fetchNextPage,
     hasNextPage,
-  } = useGovernanceProposals();
+  } = useGovernanceProposals(filterBadge && badgeToCacheState(filterBadge));
 
   let listItems: ProposalListItem[] = [];
 
@@ -184,10 +186,6 @@ export const ProposalsV3List = () => {
     data.pages.forEach((page) => listItems.push(...page.proposals));
   }
 
-  if (proposalFilter !== 'all') {
-    listItems = listItems.filter((proposal) => proposal.badgeState === filterState);
-  }
-
   return (
     <Paper variant="table" sx={{ overflow: 'hidden' }}>
       <ProposalListHeader
diff --git a/src/modules/governance/adapters.ts b/src/modules/governance/adapters.ts
index 0a4b62ae64..a687652de3 100644
--- a/src/modules/governance/adapters.ts
+++ b/src/modules/governance/adapters.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,31 @@ import {
   VoteProposalData,
 } from './types';
 
+// ============================================
+// Badge -> cache state mapping (the inverse, for the server-side state filter)
+// ============================================
+
+export function badgeToCacheState(badge: ProposalBadgeState): string {
+  switch (badge) {
+    case ProposalBadgeState.Created:
+      return 'created';
+    case ProposalBadgeState.OpenForVoting:
+      return 'active';
+    case ProposalBadgeState.Passed:
+      return 'queued';
+    case ProposalBadgeState.Executed:
+      return 'executed';
+    case ProposalBadgeState.Failed:
+      return 'failed';
+    case ProposalBadgeState.Cancelled:
+      return 'cancelled';
+    case ProposalBadgeState.Expired:
+      return 'expired';
+    case ProposalBadgeState.PartiallyExecuted:
+      return 'partially_executed';
+  }
+}
+
 // ============================================
 // Cache state -> badge mapping (replaces mapStateToBadge duplicated in 3 cache files)
 // ============================================