2014 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 7 - Elections
CHAPTER 11 - DESIGNATION AND NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES
SECTION 7-11-30. Convention nomination of candidates.

(A) A party may choose to change from nomination of candidates by primary to a method to nominate candidates by convention for all offices including, but not limited to, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, United States Senator, United States House of Representatives, Circuit Solicitor, State Senator, and members of the State House of Representatives if:

(1) there is a three-fourths vote of the total membership of the convention to use the convention nomination process; and

(2) a majority of voters in that party's next primary election approve the use of the convention nomination process.

(B) A party may not choose to nominate by party convention for an election cycle in which the filing period for candidates has begun.

(C) A political party nominating candidates by party convention shall nominate the party candidates and make the nominations public not later than the time for certifying candidates to the authority charged by law with preparing ballots for the general or special election.

(D) Nothing in this section requires a political party that has nominated candidates by convention in the previous election cycle to hold a primary in order to continue using the convention method to nominate candidates.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 23-264; 1952 Code Section 23-264; 1950 (46) 2059; 1964 (53) 1744; 1966 (54) 2093; 1968 (55) 2316; 1972 (57) 2531; 1974 (58) 2124; 1984 Act No. 403, Section 1, eff May 24, 1984; 2013 Act No. 61, Section 3, eff July 3, 2013; 2014 Act No. 196 (S.815), Section 6, eff June 2, 2014.