Iowa § 49.37 - 49.37 Arrangement of ballot.
Full text of Iowa Iowa Code § 49.37 — 49.37 Arrangement of ballot., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 49.37. 49.37 Arrangement of ballot.
1. For general elections, and for other elections in which more than one partisan office will be filled, the ballot shall be arranged as provided in this section. 2. Offices shall be arranged in groups. Partisan offices, nonpartisan offices, judges, and public measures shall be separated by a distinct line appearing on the ballot. 3. 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 for each political party shall appear in the order they appeared on the certificate, above or to the left of the nonparty political organization candidates. 4. The commissioner shall arrange the partisan county offices on the ballot with the board of supervisors first, followed by the other county offices in the same sequence in which they appear in section 39.17. Nonpartisan offices shall be listed after partisan offices. [C97, §1106; S13, §1106; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §755; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §49.37] 89 Acts, ch 136, §37; 97 Acts, ch 170, §35, 36; 2005 Acts, ch 152, §9; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §151; 2017 Acts, ch 110, §46, 47 Referred to in §43.31, 49.57A Wed Dec 10 22:23:37 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Section 49.37 (27, 0)
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