2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 43 - PARTISAN NOMINATIONS == PRIMARY ELECTION
43.53 - NOMINEES FOR SUBDIVISION OFFICE -- WRITE-IN CANDIDATES.

        43.53  NOMINEES FOR SUBDIVISION OFFICE -- WRITE-IN
      CANDIDATES.
         The nominee of each political party for any office to be filled by
      the voters of any political subdivision 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.  That person
      shall appear as the party's candidate for the office on the general
      election ballot.  A person whose name is not printed on the official
      primary ballot shall not be declared nominated as a candidate for
      such office in the general election unless that person receives at
      least five votes.  Nomination of a candidate for the office of county
      supervisor elected from a district within the county shall be
      governed by section 43.52 and not by this section.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [S13, § 1087-a19; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 581; C46, 50, 54, 58,
      62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 43.53] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         95 Acts, ch 189, §2; 2005 Acts, ch 152, §5
         Referred to in § 43.54, 43.77, 43.116