2025 Delaware Code
Title 15 - Elections
Chapter 33. NOMINATIONS OF CANDIDATES BY PARTIES
§ 3303. Time of filing certificates.
(a) (1) Except as provided under paragraphs (a)(2) and (a)(4) of this section and §§ 3002(b) and 3301(e) of this title, a certification of nomination must be filed before the close of the official business day on or before September 1 of the year of any general election, as follows:
a. For statewide office, with the State Election Commissioner.
b. For nonstatewide office, with the Department office for the county in which the nominee resides.
(2) If September 1 is a Sunday or legal holiday, a certificate of nomination under paragraph (a)(1) of this section must be filed on the next official business day.
(3) A certificate of nomination must be on the form specified by the State Election Commissioner.
(4) A nominee nominated for office by a national nominating convention must be named on a certificate of nomination to be filed before 12:
00 noon on the earlier of the following:a. The Tuesday following the national nominating convention.
b. September 15 of the election year.
(b) Except as provided under §§ 3002(b) and 3301(e) of this title, to be removed from a general election ballot, a nominee must withdraw the certificate of nomination on or before 4:
30 p.m. of the first Friday after the deadline for filing the certificate under subsection (a) of this section.19 Del. Laws, c. 37, § 6; 27 Del. Laws, c. 65, § 6; Code 1915, § 1723; Code 1935, § 1812; 43 Del. Laws, c. 129, § 2; 45 Del. Laws, Sp. Sess., c. 4,, § 1; 15 Del. C. 1953, § 3303; 55 Del. Laws, c. 324; 56 Del. Laws, c. 433, § 1; 58 Del. Laws, c. 258, § 10; 60 Del. Laws, c. 412, § 1; 60 Del. Laws, c. 447, § 8; 74 Del. Laws, c. 42, § 1; 75 Del. Laws, c. 232, § 40; 77 Del. Laws, c. 227, §§ 2, 44; 78 Del. Laws, c. 304, § 3; 79 Del. Laws, c. 275, § 63; 82 Del. Laws, c. 170, § 10; 83 Del. Laws, c. 210, § 6;
