2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 49 - METHOD OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS
49.58 - EFFECT OF DEATH OF CERTAIN CANDIDATES.

        49.58  EFFECT OF DEATH OF CERTAIN CANDIDATES.
         If any candidate nominated by a political party, as defined in
      section 43.2, for the office of senator or representative in the
      Congress of the United States, governor, attorney general, or senator
      or representative in the general assembly dies during the period
      beginning on the eighty-eighth day and ending on the last day before
      the general election, or if any candidate so nominated for the office
      of county supervisor dies during the period beginning on the
      seventy-third day and ending on the last day before the general
      election, the vote cast at the general election for that office shall
      not be canvassed as would otherwise be required by chapter 50.
      Instead, a special election shall be held on the first Tuesday after
      the second Monday in December, for the purpose of electing a person
      to fill that office.
         Each candidate for that office whose name appeared on the general
      election ballot shall also be a candidate for the office in the
      special election, except that the deceased candidate's political
      party may designate another candidate in substantially the manner
      provided by section 43.78 for filling vacancies on the general
      election ballot.  However, a political party which did not have a
      candidate on the general election ballot for the office in question
      may similarly designate a candidate for that office in the special
      election.  The name of any replacement or additional candidate so
      designated shall be submitted in writing to the state commissioner,
      or the commissioner in the case of a candidate for county supervisor,
      not later than five o'clock p.m. on the first Tuesday after the date
      of the general election.  No other candidate whose name did not
      appear on the general election ballot as a candidate for the office
      in question shall be placed on the ballot for the special election,
      in any manner.  The special election shall be held and canvassed in
      the manner prescribed by law for the general election.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C97, § 1108; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 776; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62,
      66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 49.58] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         89 Acts, ch 136, §41; 97 Acts, ch 170, § 45
         Referred to in § 43.79