Just because I’m occasionally a miserable so-and-so, I thought I’d look to see what sorts of signature numbers e-Petitions attract. I should note straight up that I think e-Petitions are a superficial, trite and virtually pointless means by which people engage in the political process.
Overall, there are 14,382 completed e-petitions so far – all of which are listed here. This doesn’t include currently open e-petitions (of which there are 5,949) or rejected petitions (of which there are 17,525).
Of those 14,382 e-petitions which have been completed:
- 16 have received more than 100,000 signatures (i.e. 0.1% of petitions completed so far)
- 50 have received more than 10,000 signatures (0.3% of petitions completed)
- 75 have received more than 5,000 signatures (0.5%). Or, put another way, 14,307 have received less than 5,000 signatures (95.5% of all completed petitions)
- 239 have received more than 1,000 signatures (1.7%). Or 14,143 have received less than 1,000 signatures (98.3% of all completed petitions)
- 368 have received more than 500 signatures (2.6%). Or 14,014 have received less than 500 signatures (97.4%).
arbitrary constant 
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