Connecticut § 9-426 - Cancellation of primary for office or town committee due to vacancies in non-party-endorsed candidacies. Slate vacancies.

§ 9-426. Cancellation of primary for office or town committee due to vacancies in non-party-endorsed candidacies. Slate vacancies.

Sec. 9-426. Cancellation of primary for office or town committee due to vacancies in non-party-endorsed candidacies. Slate vacancies. (a) If only one candidacy has been filed by a person other than a party-endorsed candidate for the nomination by a political party to a particular office and the candidate whose candidacy has been so filed thereafter, but prior to the commencement of the period of early voting at such primary, dies, withdraws his name from nomination or for any reason becomes disqualified to hold the office for which he is a candidate, no primary shall be held for the nomination of such party to that office and the party-endorsed candidate for such office shall be deemed to have been lawfully chosen in the same manner and to the same extent as is provided in sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, in the case where no candidacy other than a party-endorsed candidacy has been filed.

(b) If candidacies have been filed by only one group of persons other than party-endorsed candidates for election to a town committee, and the candidates whose candidacies have been so filed thereafter, but prior to the opening of the polls at such primary, die, withdraw their names from nomination or for any reason become disqualified to hold the positions for which they are candidates, so as to render the number of candidacies so filed less than twenty-five per cent of the number of town committee members to be elected by such party either in the municipality or in the political subdivision, as the case may be, no primary shall be held for those positions and the party-endorsed candidates for such positions shall be deemed to have been lawfully chosen in the same manner and to the same extent as is provided in sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, in the case where no candidacies other than party-endorsed candidacies have been filed.

(c) If any person on a slate, prior to the commencement of the period of early voting at such primary, dies, withdraws his name from nomination or for any reason becomes disqualified to hold the position for which he is a candidate, such partial slate shall appear on the ballot at the primary and, if such partial slate wins, then the remaining members may fill the vacancy. If only one such slate other than a slate of party-endorsed candidates has been filed for election and prior to the commencement of the period of early voting at such primary each of the persons on such slate dies, withdraws or becomes disqualified, no primary shall be held for those positions and the party-endorsed candidates for those positions shall be deemed to have been lawfully chosen in the same manner and to the same extent as is provided in sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, in the case where no candidacies other than party-endorsed candidacies have been filed.

(June, 1955, S. 599d; November, 1955, S. N82; 1957, P.A. 518, S. 28; 1958 Rev., S. 9-110; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 53; 310, S. 1; P.A. 83-475, S. 27, 43; P.A. 03-241, S. 38; P.A. 11-20, S. 1; P.A. 23-5, S. 13.)

History: 1963 acts restated previous provisions and made technical revision of language; P.A. 83-475 amended section to apply to withdrawal from nomination at any time before opening of polls at primary; P.A. 03-241 deleted exclusion re persons on a slate “other than a slate of party-endorsed candidates for election as delegates or district delegates to a particular convention of a political party”, effective January 1, 2004, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date; pursuant to P.A. 11-20, “ballot label” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “ballot”, effective May 24, 2011; P.A. 23-5 designated existing provision re candidacy for a particular office filed by person other than party-endorsed candidate as Subsec. (a), designated existing provision re candidacies for town committee members filed by groups other than party-endorsed candidates as Subsec. (b), designated existing provision re death, withdrawal or disqualification of person on a slate as Subsec. (c) and replaced “opening of the polls” with “commencement of the period of early voting” in Subsecs. (a) and (c), effective January 1, 2024.