About County District Attorney
About this position
- Office level
- County
- Election frequency
- Every 4 years
- Affiliation
- Partisan
- Positions
- 1 open seat
Election type
- Partisan election (party labels appear on ballots)
- Run-off election
How to run for County District Attorney
- Step 1
Meet eligibility requirements
A person shall not be designated or nominated for a public office or party position who (1) is not a citizen of the state of New York; (2) is ineligible to be elected to such office or position
- Step 2
File for office
- Filing requirements
- 4,000 signatures or 5% of the district's registered voters affiliated with the party whose nomination you are seeking (whichever is lesser)
- Filing period
- May 18, 2027 - May 25, 2027
- Paperwork instructions
- The sheets of a petition shall be numbered sequentially at the foot of each sheet. All petitions containing ten or more sheets shall be accompanied by a cover sheet. Any two or more petition sheets shall be securely fastened together by any means which will hold the pages together in numerical order. Petition sheets may be fastened together to form one or more volumes. Individual volumes of a petition shall be filed in the following manner: With respect to petitions which are filed with the Board of Elections in the City of New York, or petitions which are filed with other boards of elections containing candidates for more than one public or party office which are not coterminous, each volume of each petition shall bear an identification number, to be obtained in accordance with Section 6215.3, infra. The assigned identification number shall be inscribed on the front of the volume. If an identification number has not been inscribed by the person or persons filing the petition, and the petition consists of multiple volumes, then each volume of the petition shall be separately numbered on the front thereof. Only one identification number may be used to identify a petition volume. Any Board of Elections outside the City of New York may adopt a petition filing system for all petitions utilizing identification numbers as provided for in Section 6215.3. The Board may adopt such system through the approval of a rule at least two months prior to the first day to circulate petitions. The rule shall be filed at the county board of elections and the State Board of Elections. With respect to all other petitions which contain ten or more sheets, each volume of the petition shall have a cover sheet secured to the front of such volume.
- Where to file
- 1 Edgewater Plaza, 4 Fl Staten Island, NY 10305
- Filing phone
- 718.459.3384
- Step 3
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