New Jersey § 19:27-11
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 19:27-11, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 19:27-11.
In the case of a vacancy occurring with respect to a member of the Senate or General
Assembly who was elected as the candidate of a political party which at the last preceding
general election held for all members of the General Assembly received the largest
number of votes or the next largest number of votes in the State for members of the
General Assembly, for the interim period pending the election and qualification of
a permanent successor to fill the vacancy, or for the interim period constituting
the remainder of the term in the case of a vacancy occurring which cannot be filled
pursuant to section 7 of this amendatory and supplementary act 1 at a general election, the vacancy shall be filled within 35 days by a member of
the political party of which the person who vacated the office was the candidate at
the time of his election thereto. The interim successor shall be selected by the appropriate political party's county
committee or committees in the same manner prescribed in subsections a. and b. of R.S. 19:13-20 for selecting candidates to fill vacancies among candidates nominated at primary
elections, and a statement of the selection of that successor shall be certified to
and filed with the Secretary of State in the same manner prescribed by subsection
d. of that section for certifying statements concerning the selection of such candidates. The Secretary of State shall thereupon issue to the interim successor a certificate
of selection based upon that filed statement of selection, and shall sign his name
and affix the seal of the State thereto, and shall without delay deliver that statement
to the person so selected. The Secretary of State shall also prepare a certified statement of selection, similar
in form to the certificate but addressed to the presiding officer of the house of
the Legislature in which the vacancy occurred, and shall sign the statement, affix
the seal of the State thereto, and promptly deliver the same to the President of the
Senate or Speaker of the General Assembly as appropriate. 1
N.J.S.A. § 19:27-11.1.
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