Blanco won with 52%, or 730,737 votes, to Jindal's 48%, or 676,180. More than half of Louisiana's 2.7 million registered voters cast ballots, a higher turnout than predicted.
"This petition shall be signed by a number of the electors of the voting area as will in number equal not less than thirty-three and one-third percent of the number of the total electors of the voting area wherein and for which a recall election is petitioned; "
There were 1,406,917 electors. So thirty three and one third of this is 468,503 signatures that must be obtained.