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Laws of North Carolina (Last Updated: May 12, 2015) |
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Chapter163. Elections and Election Laws. |
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SubchapterV. NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES |
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Article10. Primary Elections |
§163-114. Filling vacancies among party nominees occurring after nomination and before election
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If any person nominated as a candidate of a political party for one of the offices listed below (either in a primary or convention or by virtue of having no opposition in a primary) dies, resigns, or for any reason becomes ineligible or disqualified before the date of the ensuing general election, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment according to the following instructions:
Position
President Vacancy is to be filled by appointment of
Vice President national executive committee of
political party in which vacancy occurs
Presidential elector or alternate elector Vacancy is to be filled by appointment of
Any elective State office State executive committee of political
United States Senator party in which vacancy occurs
A district office, including: Appropriate district executive committee of
Member of the United States House political party in which vacancy occurs
of Representatives
District Attorney
State Senator in a multi-county
senatorial district
Member of State House of
Representatives in a multi-county
representative district
State Senator in a single-county County executive committee of political
senatorial district party in which vacancy occurs,
Member of State House of provided, in the case of the State
Representatives in a single-county Senator or State Representative in a
representative district single-county district where not all the
Any elective county office county is located in that district, then in
voting, only those members of the
county executive committee who reside
within the district shall vote
The party executive making a nomination in accordance with the provisions of this section shall certify the name of its nominee to the chairman of the board of elections, State or county, that has jurisdiction over the ballot item under G.S. 163-182.4. If at the time a nomination is made under this section the general election ballots have already been printed, the provisions of G.S.163-165.3(c) shall apply. If a vacancy occurs in a nomination of a political party and that vacancy arises from a cause other than death and the vacancy in nomination occurs more than 120 days before the general election, the vacancy in nomination may be filled under this section only if the appropriate executive committee certifies the name of the nominee in accordance with this paragraph at least 75 days before the general election.
In a county not all of which is located in one congressional district, in choosing the congressional district executive committee member or members from that area of the county, only the county convention delegates or county executive committee members who reside within the area of the county which is within the congressional district may vote.
In a county which is partly in a multi-county senatorial district or which is partly in a multi-county House of Representatives district, in choosing that county's member or members of the senatorial district executive committee or House of Representatives district executive committee for the multi-county district, only the county convention delegates or county executive committee members who reside within the area of the county which is within that multi-county district may vote.
An individual whose name appeared on the ballot in a primary election preliminary to the general election shall not be eligible to be nominated to fill a vacancy in the nomination of another party for the same office in the same year.