Iowa General Assembly Banner


49.37 Arrangement of ballot.

1. Each column or row containing a ticket or tickets, each preceded by the name of a political party or a group of petitioners, shall be separated by a distinct line appearing on the ballot. The names of candidates for nonpartisan offices shall be placed on a separate column or row on the ballot.

2. The commissioner shall arrange the ballot in conformity with the certificate issued by the state commissioner under section 43.73, in that the names of the respective candidates on each political party ticket shall appear in the order they appeared on the certificate, above or to the left of the nonparty political organization tickets.

3. The commissioner shall arrange the partisan county offices on the ballot with the board of supervisors first, followed by the other county offices and township offices in the same sequence in which they appear in sections 39.17 and 39.22. Nonpartisan offices shall be listed below or to the right of partisan offices.

Section History: Early form

[C97, § 1106; S13, § 1106; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 755; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 49.37]

Section History: Recent form

89 Acts, ch 136, §37

Internal References

Referred to in § 49.35, 52.10


Return To Home Iowa General Assembly

index Search: Iowa Code 1995

© 1996 Cornell College and League of Women Voters of Iowa


Comments? webmaster@legis.iowa.gov.

Last update: Thu Feb 8 18:14:51 CST 1996
URL: /IACODE/1995/49/37.html
jhf