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Florida Minimum Wage Increase Initiative (2018)

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Florida Minimum Wage Increase Initiative
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Election date
November 6, 2018
Topic
Minimum wage
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment
Origin
Citizens


The Minimum Wage Increase Initiative (#15-09) was not on the ballot in Florida as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 6, 2018. The measure did not make the ballot in Florida as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2016.

The measure would have increased the state's hourly minimum wage to $10.[1][2]

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title was as follows:[3]

Minimum Wage Shall Not Be Less Than Ten Dollars An Hour.[4]

Ballot summary

The ballot summary was as follows:[3]

Changes the legal minimum wage to ten dollars per hour.[4]

Constitutional changes

The measure was designed to amend the Florida Constitution by replacing Section 24(c) of Article X.[3]

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Florida

In Florida, signature requirements for qualifying an initiative for the ballot are based on the total number of votes cast during the most recent presidential election. Sponsors must collect a number equal to 8 percent of this total and in accordance with certain distribution requirements. Signatures can remain valid up to two years after the date they were signed, but they must be verified by February 1 of the targeted year, and therefore must be submitted prior to that date.

2016

  • Supporters needed to collect a minimum of 683,149 valid signatures by February 1, 2016, in order to qualify the measure for the November 2016 ballot.
  • By February 1, 2016, petitioners had not submitted any valid signatures, according to the secretary of state.[1]
  • Supporters did not collect enough signatures by the deadline to reach the ballot.

2018

  • Supporters needed to submit 766,200 valid signatures by February 1, 2018, in order to qualify the measure for the ballot.
  • On February 1, 2018, the campaign had submitted 11 valid signatures.

State profile

Demographic data for Florida
 FloridaU.S.
Total population:20,244,914316,515,021
Land area (sq mi):53,6253,531,905
Race and ethnicity**
White:76%73.6%
Black/African American:16.1%12.6%
Asian:2.6%5.1%
Native American:0.3%0.8%
Pacific Islander:0.1%0.2%
Two or more:2.4%3%
Hispanic/Latino:23.7%17.1%
Education
High school graduation rate:86.9%86.7%
College graduation rate:27.3%29.8%
Income
Median household income:$47,507$53,889
Persons below poverty level:19.8%11.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2010-2015)
Click here for more information on the 2020 census and here for more on its impact on the redistricting process in Florida.
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

Presidential voting pattern

See also: Presidential voting trends in Florida

Florida voted Republican in five out of the seven presidential elections between 2000 and 2024.

Pivot Counties (2016)

Ballotpedia identified 206 counties that voted for Donald Trump (R) in 2016 after voting for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012. Collectively, Trump won these Pivot Counties by more than 580,000 votes. Of these 206 counties, four are located in Florida, accounting for 1.94 percent of the total pivot counties.[5]

Pivot Counties (2020)

In 2020, Ballotpedia re-examined the 206 Pivot Counties to view their voting patterns following that year's presidential election. Ballotpedia defined those won by Trump won as Retained Pivot Counties and those won by Joe Biden (D) as Boomerang Pivot Counties. Nationwide, there were 181 Retained Pivot Counties and 25 Boomerang Pivot Counties. Florida had three Retained Pivot Counties and one Boomerang Pivot County, accounting for 1.66 and 4.00 percent of all Retained and Boomerang Pivot Counties, respsectively.

More Florida coverage on Ballotpedia

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Florida Department of State, "Constitutional Amendment Petition Form," accessed November 16, 2015
  2. Florida Division of Elections, "Minimum Wage Shall Not Be Less Than Ten Dollars An Hour 15-09," accessed December 1, 2016
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Florida Division of Elections, "Constitutional Amendment Petition Form," accessed December 1, 2016
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "quotedisclaimer" defined multiple times with different content
  5. The raw data for this study was provided by Dave Leip of Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.