2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 43 - PARTISAN NOMINATIONS == PRIMARY ELECTION
43.52 - NOMINEES FOR COUNTY OFFICE.

        43.52  NOMINEES FOR COUNTY OFFICE.
         The nominee of each political party for any office to be filled by
      the voters of the entire county, or for the office of county
      supervisor elected from a district within the county, shall be the
      person receiving the highest number of votes cast in the primary
      election by the voters of that party for the office, and that person
      shall appear as the party's candidate for the office on the general
      election ballot.
         If no candidate receives thirty-five percent or more of the votes
      cast by voters of the candidate's party for the office sought, the
      primary is inconclusive and the nomination shall be made as provided
      by section 43.78, subsection 1, paragraphs "d" and "e".
         When two or more nominees are required, as in the case of at-large
      elections, the nominees shall likewise be the required number of
      persons who receive the greatest number of votes cast in the primary
      election by the voters of the nominating party, but no candidate is
      nominated who fails to receive thirty-five percent of the number of
      votes found by dividing the number of votes cast by voters of the
      candidate's party for the office in question by the number of persons
      to be elected to that office. If the primary is inconclusive under
      this paragraph, the necessary number of nominations shall be made as
      provided by section 43.78, subsection 1, paragraphs "d" and
      "e". 

         [S13, § 1087-a19; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 580; C46, 50, 54, 58,
      62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 43.52]
         Referred to in § 43.53, 43.66, 43.67, 43.77
         Nomination by convention, § 43.97