17-13-18
Section 17-13-18 Candidate with majority of votes declared nominee of party; second primary
election; certification of results. (a) At the respective meetings of the respective executive
committees, the county executive committee, as to candidates in the primary election for office,
except candidates for county office, shall publicly ascertain, determine, and declare whether
any candidate for office in the primary election has received a majority of the votes cast
for the office, and, if so, declare the candidate the nominee of the party for the office
for which he or she was a candidate and for which he or she received a majority of the votes
cast for that office in the primary election. (b) If no candidate receives a majority of all
of the votes cast in such primary election for any one office or offices for the nomination
to which there were more than two candidates, then there shall be held a second primary election
on the fourth Tuesday following the primary election, and the...
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17-13-101
Section 17-13-101 Applicability of Section 17-9-3 and this chapter. The provisions of Section
17-9-3 and this chapter shall apply to presidential preference primaries held under the provisions
of this article unless clearly inconsistent herewith or inappropriate for the conduct of a
presidential preference primary. Any political party holding a presidential preference primary
may promulgate rules for the conduct of such primary not inconsistent with the provisions
of this article. (Code 1975, §17-18A-2; Acts 1978, No. 691, p. 994, §2; §17-16A-2; amended
and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §65.)...
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17-13-105
Section 17-13-105 Political party to file resolution with Secretary of State. Each political
party authorized to hold a primary and wishing to hold such a presidential preference primary
shall, not less than 116 days before such primary is to be held, adopt and file with the Secretary
of State a resolution stating that intention, the method by which electors are to indicate
one or more preferences, the method by which delegates are to be selected, elected, chosen,
and replaced, and the pledge, if any, by which delegates are to be bound. (Code 1975, §17-18A-7;
Acts 1978, No. 691, p. 994, §7; Acts 1979, No. 79-547, p. 994, §1; Acts 1990, No. 90-699,
p. 1359, §1; §17-16A-6; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §65; Act 2015-477,
§1.)...
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17-16-36
Section 17-16-36 Candidate with majority votes declared nominee of party; second primary election;
certification of results. THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED AND RENUMBERED AS SECTION 17-13-18 BY ACT
2006-570. (Acts 1975, No. 1196, p. 2349, §32; Acts 1977, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 69, p. 1493,
§1; Acts 1979, No. 79-800, p. 1463, §3; Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-908, p. 482, §3;
Act 2003-313, p. 733, §2; Act 2006-354, §1.)...
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45-48-70.06
Section 45-48-70.06 Qualifications for election. Each candidate for election to the commission
at the general election shall be nominated by the voters of the entire county who are authorized
to participate in any primary election, caucus, or convention, called or held by any political
party for the nomination of the office, and their nomination by the qualified voters of any
district, or of any subdivision of the county less than the whole county, by any primary election,
caucus, or convention, is hereby prohibited. Each associate commissioner shall be a qualified
voter and be a resident of the district for which he or she is elected, and shall reside in
the district continuously during his or her term of office. (Acts 1976, No. 616, p. 840, §
7; Acts 1976, No. 633, p. 870, § 7.)...
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17-13-19
Section 17-13-19 Procedure when one candidate declines to enter second primary. In the event
either of the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the first primary election
shall determine not to enter the second primary election provided for in this chapter, the
candidate, as soon as possible and not more than three days after holding of the first primary
election, shall certify his or her declination to enter such second primary election to the
chair of the state executive committee of his or her party, if the office is an office other
than a county office, or to the chair of the county executive committee of his or her party
if the office is a county office. Upon the receipt of such notification, the chair of such
committee shall declare the other candidate the nominee of the party for such office and certify
his or her name as such nominee to the Secretary of State or the judge of probate, as the
case may require, and a second primary election for the nomination of...
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45-37-72.27
Section 45-37-72.27 Statement of candidacy; petition. (a) No primary election shall be held
to nominate a candidate to fill a vacancy under this subpart. At any election held under this
subpart no person's name shall appear on the ballot as a candidate for the office to be filled
at the election unless such person has filed in the office of the judge of probate of the
county within the time and in the forms prescribed in subsection (b) his or her statement
of candidacy and the petition signed by a least 100 qualified electors of the commission district
requesting that such person become a candidate for the office. (b) Any person desiring to
become a candidate at any election may become such candidate by filing in the office of the
judge of probate of the county such person's statement in writing of such candidacy, accompanied
by such person's affidavit taken and certified by such judge of probate, or by a notary public,
that such person is duly qualified to hold the office for which...
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17-13-17
Section 17-13-17 Canvass, tabulation, and declaration of results. The county executive committee
of the party or parties participating in the primary election shall meet at the courthouse
of its county, not later than noon on Tuesday next following the primary election, and receive
the returns, canvass and tabulate the same, by precincts, and publicly declare the results
thereof. The chair of each county executive committee shall forthwith and no later than the
close of business on the seventh day following the primary election certify and return to
the chair of the state executive committee a statement and tabulation, by precincts, of the
result of the primary election and of the number of votes received by each candidate therein
for office, except candidates for county office. Not later than noon on the Wednesday eight
days following such primary election, the state executive committee, or such subcommittee
thereof as may have been appointed by the chair thereof for such purpose,...
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17-6-21
Section 17-6-21 Contents; amendments; withdrawal of name. (a) The official ballots shall contain
the names of all candidates nominated by caucus, convention, mass meeting, primary election,
or other assembly of any political party or faction, or by petition of electors and certified
as provided in Section 17-9-3, but no person's name shall be printed upon the ballots who,
within the time period set forth in subsection (c), notifies the judge of probate in writing,
acknowledged before an officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments, that he or she will
not accept the nomination specified in the certificate of nomination or petition of electors.
The name of each candidate shall appear but one time on the ballot and under only one emblem.
(b) A nomination for a candidate in a primary or general election shall be finalized by the
respective state executive committees not later than 76 days before the primary or general
election. Any amendment to a certification of a candidate by a...
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17-13-83
Section 17-13-83 Manner of commencing contest of nomination to office other than county office.
Any qualified elector of a party participating in any primary election held under the provisions
of this chapter may, if the elector participated in the primary, contest a nomination declared
by his or her party to any office, other than a county office, by filing with the chair of
the state executive committee a statement of contest and grounds thereof, as required by this
article, for contest before a committee, verified and with averments the same as therein provided
and by giving security as provided in this article. The person whose nomination is contested
shall at once be notified by such chair in writing of such fact, and such contestee shall
have five days after the receipt of such notice of such contest within which to file with
the chair of the state executive committee his or her objections and answers to the statement
of contest. (Acts 1931, No. 56, p. 73; Code 1940, T. 17,...
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