§ 22-5-304 — Qualifications and number of signers required

(a) For a statewide partisan office, a petition shall be
signed by registered electors, resident in the state and
eligible to vote for the petitioner, numbering not less than two
percent (2%) of the total number of votes cast for
representative in congress in the last general election for the
entire state.
(b) For a countywide partisan office, a petition shall be
signed by registered electors, resident in the county and
eligible to vote for the petitioner, numbering not less than two
percent (2%) of the total number of votes cast for
representative in congress in the last general election for the
entire county.
(c) For a district partisan election, a petition shall be
signed by registered electors, resident in the district and
eligible to vote for the petitioner, numbering not less than two
percent (2%) of the total number of votes cast for the office in
that particular district in the last general election. If a
district's boundaries have changed since the last general
election, then the required number of petition signatures shall
not be less than two percent (2%) of the number of registered
voters in the current district boundaries at the close of day on
the day immediately preceding the primary election.