PRINTER'S NO. 2244
No. 1790 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY WESTON, JUNE 28, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JUNE 28, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), entitled
2 "An act concerning elections, including general, municipal,
3 special and primary elections, the nomination of candidates,
4 primary and election expenses and election contests; creating
5 and defining membership of county boards of elections;
6 imposing duties upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
7 courts, county boards of elections, county commissioners;
8 imposing penalties for violation of the act, and codifying,
9 revising and consolidating the laws relating thereto; and
10 repealing certain acts and parts of acts relating to
11 elections," further providing for the number of signatures
12 required on nomination petitions.
13 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
14 hereby enacts as follows:
15 Section 1. Section 912.1 of the act of June 3, 1937
16 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code,
17 amended February 13, 1989 (P.L.1, No.1), is amended to read:
18 Section 912.1. Number of Signers Required for Nomination
19 Petitions of Candidates at Primaries.--(a) Candidates for
20 nomination of offices as listed below shall present a nominating
21 petition containing at least as many valid signatures of
22 registered and enrolled members of the proper party as listed
1 below:
2 (1) President of the United States: Two thousand.
3 (2) United States Senate: Two thousand.
4 (3) Governor: Two thousand including at least one hundred
5 from each of at least ten counties.
6 (4) Lieutenant Governor: One thousand including at least one
7 hundred from each of at least five counties.
8 (5) Treasurer: One thousand including at least one hundred
9 from each of at least five counties.
10 (6) Auditor General: One thousand including at least one
11 hundred from each of at least five counties.
12 (7) Attorney General: One thousand including at least one
13 hundred from each of at least five counties.
14 (8) Justice of the Supreme Court: One thousand including at
15 least one hundred from each of at least five counties.
16 (9) Judge of the Superior Court: One thousand including at
17 least one hundred from each of at least five counties.
18 (10) Judge of the Commonwealth Court: One thousand including
19 at least one hundred from each of at least five counties.
20 (11) For any other office to be filled by the vote of the
21 electors of the State at large or for any other party office to
22 be elected by the electors of the State at large: One thousand
23 including at least one hundred from each of at least five
24 counties.
25 (12) Representative in Congress: One thousand.
26 (13) Senator in the General Assembly: Five hundred.
27 (14) Representative in the General Assembly: Three hundred.
28 (15) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the
29 electors in counties of the first class at large: One thousand.
30 (16) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the
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1 electors in counties of the second class at large: Five hundred.
2 (17) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the
3 electors in cities of the first class at large: One thousand.
4 (18) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the
5 electors in counties of the second class A at large: Two hundred
6 fifty.
7 (19) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the
8 electors in counties of the third class at large: Two hundred
9 fifty.
10 (20) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the
11 electors in counties of the fourth class at large: Two hundred
12 fifty.
13 (21) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the
14 electors in cities of the second class at large: Two hundred
15 fifty.
16 (22) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the
17 electors in cities of the second class A at large: One hundred.
18 (23) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the
19 electors in cities of the third class at large: One hundred.
20 (24) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the
21 electors in counties of the fifth class at large: One hundred.
22 (25) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the
23 electors in counties of the sixth class at large: One hundred.
24 (26) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the
25 electors in counties of the seventh class at large: One hundred.
26 (27) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the
27 electors in counties of the eighth class at large: One hundred.
28 (28) Office of judge of any court of record other than a
29 Statewide court or a court in a county of the first or second
30 class: Two hundred fifty.
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1 (29) District delegate or alternate district delegate to a
2 National party convention: Two hundred fifty.
3 (30) Member of State committee: One hundred.
4 (31) Office of district council member in a city of the
5 first class: Seven hundred fifty.
6 (32) Office of district justice: One hundred.
7 (33) Office of judge of election: Ten.
8 (34) Inspector of elections: Five.
9 (35) All other public and party offices: Ten.
10 (b) A candidate seeking the nomination of a major political
11 party to a public office, to be filled in an electoral district
12 in which the party's district-wide registration is less than
13 fifteen (15) per centum of the total district-wide registration,
14 may file a nomination petition containing the number of valid
15 signatures of the qualified electors of said party at least
16 equal to the lesser of five (5) per centum of the total
17 district-wide registration of said party or the number of valid
18 signatures required under subsection (a). The number of
19 signatures required under this subsection shall be determined on
20 the basis of the registration figures at the close of the
21 registration period immediately preceding the most recent
22 November election. This subsection shall only apply to those
23 public offices subject to paragraphs twelve through thirty-two
24 of subsection (a). The requirements governing major political
25 party nominations shall apply in all other respects.
26 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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