Ballot measure signature costs, 2024
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Ballotpedia's cost-per-required-signature (CPRS) report analyzes the signature-gathering costs of ballot initiative campaigns. In 2024, 57 citizen-initiated measures were on the ballot—one on June 11, and 56 on November 5.
- Note: Signature gathering costs were unavailable for four South Dakota initiatives and are thus excluded from the report.
Proponents of these initiatives conducted initiative petition signature drives, and the initiatives qualified to appear on the state's statewide ballot. Requirements differ from state to state, such as the number of signatures required, circulation period length, and other requirements.
CPRS is calculated as a campaign's total spending on signature gathering relative to the number of valid signatures required. You can read more about how we measure signature gathering costs below.
The 53 initiative campaigns with available signature drive data, including two campaigns that utilized volunteers for a total cost of $0, spent a combined $172 million[1] on signature gathering. The average petition drive cost was $3,248,171.02, and the average CPRS was $14.87.
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See also
Other petition cost reports
- 2012 ballot measure petition signature costs
- 2013 ballot measure petition signature costs
- 2014 ballot measure petition signature costs
- 2015 ballot measure petition signature costs
- Ballot measure signature costs, 2016
- Ballot measure signature costs, 2017
- Ballot measure signature costs, 2018
- Ballot measures cost per required signatures analysis
- Ballot measure signature costs, 2019
- Ballot measure signature costs, 2020
- Ballot measure signature costs, 2021
- Ballot measure signature costs, 2022
- Ballot measure signature costs, 2023
- User:Jackie Mitchell/CPRS 2024
Footnotes
- ↑ $172,153,063.82
- ↑ A total of 57 citizen initiatives were certified for the 2024 ballot. Signature gathering costs were unavailable for four South Dakota initiatives and are thus excluded from the report.
- ↑ $3,248,171.02
- ↑ Excluding the two campaigns that used volunteers to conduct their signature drives, the total cost spent by campaigns utilizing paid signature gatherers was $3,375,550.27.
- ↑ Excluding the two campaigns that used volunteers to conduct their signature drives, the average CPRS for campaigns utilizing paid signature gatherers was $15.45
- ↑ $532,980,985.41
- ↑ $532,980,985.41
- ↑ If the average is lower than the lowest non-zero figure listed for a given year, it means that there were successful volunteer petitions drives with $0 CPRS.
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