43.23  Death or withdrawal of primary candidate.

1.  If a person who has filed nomination papers with the state commissioner as a candidate in a primary election dies or withdraws up to the seventy- sixth day before the primary election, the appropriate convention or central committee of that person's political party may designate one additional primary election candidate for the nomination that person was seeking, if the designation is submitted to the state commissioner in writing by five o'clock p.m. on the seventy-first day before the date of the primary election. The name of any candidate so submitted shall be included in the appropriate certificate or certificates furnished by the state commissioner under section 43.22.

2.  If a person who has filed nomination papers with the commissioner as a candidate in a primary election dies or withdraws up to the sixty-seventh day before the primary election, the appropriate convention or central committee of that person's political party may designate one additional primary election candidate for the nomination that person was seeking, if the designation is submitted to the commissioner in writing by five o'clock p.m. on the sixty-third day before the primary election. The name of any candidate so submitted shall be placed on the appropriate ballot or ballots by the commissioner.

Section History: Early form

  [C66, 71, 73, 75, § 43.59(1); C77, 79, 81, § 43.23]

Section History: Recent form

  86 Acts, ch 1224, § 2; 89 Acts, ch 136, §10

Internal References

  Referred to in § 43.13


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