2013 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 9 - Elections
Chapter 153 - Nominations and Political Parties

PART I
GENERAL

• Section 9-372 - Definitions.
• Section 9-373 - Nominations to public office.
• Section 9-373a - Registration of write-in candidates.
• Section 9-373b - Cross endorsement of a candidate.
• Section 9-374 - Party rules to be filed.
• Section 9-375 - Amendment of party rules.
• Section 9-375a - Amendment of party rules in 1972.
• Section 9-375b - Amendment of party rules following a census.
• Section 9-376 - Postponement of primary day.
• Section 9-377 - Write-in spaces on ballots prohibited.
• Section 9-378 - Nominations without party designation excepted.
• Section 9-378a to 9-378l - Reserved for future use.

PART II
PARTIES ENTITLED TO PLACE ON BALLOT

• Section 9-378m - Transferred to Sec. 9-453u.
• Section 9-379 - Eligibility for placing on ballot.
• Section 9-380 - Newly-created offices.

PART III
NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES
A
MAJOR PARTIES

• Section 9-381 - Nomination procedure.
• Section 9-381a - Election procedures applicable to primaries unless otherwise provided.
• Section 9-382 - Party-endorsed candidates; state or district office.
• Section 9-383 - Time and place of convention.
• Section 9-384 - Calls for conventions.
• Section 9-384a - Calls for 1974 party conventions.
• Section 9-385 - Roll-call vote or polling by delegation at convention.
• Section 9-385a - Voting by delegation at state convention.
• Section 9-386 - Tie vote on endorsement.
• Section 9-387 - Dispute as to endorsement of a candidate or selection of a delegate.
• Section 9-388 - Report to Secretary of the State.
• Section 9-389 - Publication of names; information concerning filing of candidacies.
• Section 9-390 - Selection of party-endorsed candidates for municipal office and selection of delegates to conventions.
• Section 9-390a - Election of town committee members in 1972.
• Section 9-391 - Time for party endorsements for municipal offices and town committee members. Time for selection of delegates to conventions. Certification. Late certification void.
• Section 9-392 - Selection of town committees.
• Section 9-393 - Selection of town committee members and delegates.
• Section 9-394 - District delegates.
• Section 9-394a - Senatorial and assembly district convention delegates.
• Section 9-395 - Publication of information concerning municipal primaries.
• Section 9-396 - Ballot vote at caucus; eligibility to vote.
• Section 9-397 - Tie vote on endorsement.
• Section 9-398 and 9-399 - Dispute as to endorsement. Time for filing candidacies.
• Section 9-400 - Filing of candidacies; state or district office.
• Section 9-401 to 9-404 - Availability of petition forms. Petition form; circulation of petitions for state or district office; prohibited acts. Registrar’s receipt and verification of petitions for state or district office; rejection by Secretary of the State, when; preservation of petitions by secretary. Return of deposit; state or district office.
• Section 9-404a - Availability and issuance of primary petition forms for candidacies for nomination to state or district office.
• Section 9-404b - Primary petition forms for candidacies for nomination to state or district office. Signatures. Circulation.
• Section 9-404c - Registrar’s receipt and verification of petitions for candidacies for nomination to state or district office. Filing with Secretary. Tabulation.
• Section 9-405 - Time for filing primary petition candidacies for municipal offices and town committee members.
• Section 9-406 - Filing of primary petition candidacies for municipal offices and town committee members.
• Section 9-406a - Penalty for fraudulent certification.
• Section 9-407 and 9-408 - Filing of candidacies; delegates. Filing of primary petition candidacies for district delegates.
• Section 9-409 - Availability and issuance of primary petition forms for candidacies for nomination to municipal office or election as town committee members.
• Section 9-410 - Primary petition forms for candidacies for nomination to municipal office or election as town committee members. Signatures. Circulation.
• Section 9-411 - Number of candidates required on petition for town committee members.
• Section 9-412 - Registrar’s receipt and verification of petitions for candidacies for nomination to municipal office or election as town committee members. Filing with clerk.
• Section 9-413 - Deposition of deposit filed with registrar.
• Section 9-413a - Registrar to certify accuracy of enrollment list provided to candidate circulating primary petition.
• Section 9-414 - Nominations not to exceed places to be filled; municipal primaries.
• Section 9-415 - When primary required.
• Section 9-416 - No-contest nominations; state or district office.
• Section 9-416a - Failure of party to endorse; state or district office.
• Section 9-417 - No-contest nominations; municipal office and town committee members.
• Section 9-418 - Failure of party to endorse; municipal office.
• Section 9-419 - Failure of party to endorse; town committee members.
• Section 9-420 - Persons selected as convention delegates by party deemed lawfully selected.
• Section 9-421 - When primary not to be held for town committee members.
• Section 9-422 - Primaries for justices of the peace.
• Section 9-423 - Time for primaries; state, district or municipal office.
• Section 9-424 - Time for primaries; delegates.
• Section 9-425 - Time for primaries; town committees.
• Section 9-426 - Cancellation of primary for office or town committee due to vacancies in non-party-endorsed candidacies. Slate vacancies.
• Section 9-427 - Cancellation of delegate primary due to vacancies in party-endorsed candidacies; filling of vacancies when incomplete party-endorsed slate wins delegate primary.
• Section 9-428 - Vacancy in party-endorsed candidacy.
• Section 9-429 - Cancellation of primary for office or town committee when vacancies in candidacies result in no contest.
• Section 9-430 - Withdrawal procedure.
• Section 9-431 - Eligibility to vote at primary.
• Section 9-431a - Eligibility to vote at caucus, primary or town convention.
• Section 9-431b - Eligibility to vote on removal from one town in state or district to another.
• Section 9-432 - Verification of names on filing with secretary.
• Section 9-433 - Notice of primary; state and district office.
• Section 9-434 - Verification of names on filing with municipal clerk. Exception.
• Section 9-435 - Notice of primary; municipal office or town committee members.
• Section 9-436 - Use, number and adjustment of voting tabulators; voting booths; conditions and rules for use of paper ballots; qualification, appointment and training of primary officials.
• Section 9-436a - Candidate checkers.
• Section 9-437 - Form of ballot. Position of candidates’ names on ballot. Sample ballots. Voting instructions and information.
• Section 9-438 - Hours and places of voting.
• Section 9-439 - Duties of officials.
• Section 9-439a - Remedy for denial of right to vote.
• Section 9-439b - Penalty for false statement.
• Section 9-440 - Moderators to make returns.
• Section 9-441 - Compensation of registrars and municipal clerks.
• Section 9-442 - When party has no registrar.
• Section 9-443 - Votes for justices of the peace.
• Section 9-444 - Determination of nominee, town committee members or justices of the peace.
• Section 9-445 - Recanvass on close vote.
• Section 9-446 - Tie vote.
• Section 9-447 - Unlocking of voting tabulators.
• Section 9-448 - Recount of paper ballots.
• Section 9-449 - Transferred to Chapter 149, Sec. 9-329a.
• Section 9-450 - Vacancy elections.
• Section 9-450a - Special elections in 1974.

B
MINOR PARTIES

• Section 9-451 - Minor parties.
• Section 9-452 - Time for making nominations; certification.
• Section 9-452a - Notice of party meetings.

C
PETITIONING PARTIES

• Section 9-453 - Petition requirements.
• Section 9-453a - Petition form.
• Section 9-453b - Issuance of nominating petition forms; restrictions. Application requirements.
• Section 9-453c - When single petition may be used.
• Section 9-453d - Number of signatures.
• Section 9-453e - Circulator.
• Section 9-453f - Signature pages.
• Section 9-453g - False signing.
• Section 9-453h - Withdrawal of signatures.
• Section 9-453i - Submission to town clerk or Secretary of the State.
• Section 9-453j - Statement by circulator.
• Section 9-453k - Signing and certification of circulator’s statement; receipt for pages; certification of signatures.
• Section 9-453l - Delegation of signature check to registrars.
• Section 9-453m - Signatures, effect of variations.
• Section 9-453n - Date for filing with secretary.
• Section 9-453o - Rejection of defective pages. Cure for omission by town clerk. Approval of petitions.
• Section 9-453p - Withdrawal of candidacy.
• Section 9-453q - Use of party levers for petitioning candidates.
• Section 9-453r - Position of candidates’ names on ballot.
• Section 9-453s - Vacancies in candidacies. Ballot.
• Section 9-453t - Candidate nominated by major or minor party prohibited from appearing on ballot by nominating petition. Exception for cross endorsement.
• Section 9-453u - (Formerly Sec. 9-378m). Reservation of party designation.
• Section 9-454 to 9-458 - Petition: Form; signatures; circulation and filing; town clerk’s duties; platform statement required, when; false signing.

PART IV
VACANCIES

• Section 9-459 - Vacancy elections.
• Section 9-460 - Vacancy in nomination; withdrawal procedure. Certification of replacement nomination; time limitations. Ballot labels.

PART V
LISTS OF CANDIDATES

• Section 9-461 - Filing of list of candidates with Secretary.
• Section 9-462 - Lists of candidates for state and district offices.