Congressional District Requirements

Petitions must be signed by a number of electors in each of one half of the Congressional Districts of the state, and of the state as a whole, equal to eight percent of the votes cast in each of such districts respectively and in the state as a whole in the last preceding election in which Presidential electors were chosen. For the 2006 General Election Ballot, 611,009 signatures are required.

In order to comply with sections 15.21 and 16.061, Florida Statutes, you will need to collect and have verified at 61,114 signatures obtained from voters residing in at least 7 Congressional Districts in Florida.

Section 15.21(3), Florida Statutes, requires that petitioners obtain signatures from 10% of the voters required by Article XI, Section 3, Florida Constitution, and from at least 25% of the Congressional Districts required by Article XI, Section 3, Florida Constitution, to request review by the Florida Supreme Court.