2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 50 - CANVASS OF VOTES
50.45 - CANVASS PUBLIC -- RESULT DETERMINED.

        50.45  CANVASS PUBLIC -- RESULT DETERMINED.
         All canvasses of tally lists shall be public, and the persons
      having the greatest number of votes shall be declared elected.  When
      a public measure has been submitted to the electors, the proposition
      shall be declared to have been adopted if the vote cast in favor of
      the question is greater than fifty percent of the total vote cast in
      favor and against the question, unless laws pertaining specifically
      to the public measure election establish a higher percentage of a
      favorable vote.  All ballots cast and not counted as a vote in favor
      or against the proposition shall not be used in computing the total
      vote cast in favor and against the proposition.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C51, § 262, 273, 307; R60, § 497, 508, 541; C73, § 623, 638, 664;
      C97, § 1170; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 884; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66,
      71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 50.45] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         88 Acts, ch 1119, § 21
         Referred to in § 331.383