2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 43 - PARTISAN NOMINATIONS == PRIMARY ELECTION
43.6 - NOMINATION OF U. S. SENATORS, STATE AND COUNTY OFFICERS.

        43.6  NOMINATION OF U. S. SENATORS, STATE AND COUNTY
      OFFICERS.
         Candidates for the office of senator in the Congress of the United
      States, the offices listed in section 39.9, county supervisor, and
      the offices listed in section 39.17 shall be nominated in the year
      preceding the expiration of the term of office of the incumbent.
         1.  When a vacancy occurs in the office of senator in the Congress
      of the United States, secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer
      of state, secretary of agriculture, or attorney general and section
      69.13 requires that the vacancy be filled for the balance of the
      unexpired term at a general election, candidates for the office shall
      be nominated in the preceding primary election if the vacancy occurs
      eighty-nine or more days before the date of that primary election.
      If the vacancy occurs less than one hundred four days before the date
      of that primary election, the state commissioner shall accept
      nomination papers for that office only until five o'clock p.m. on the
      seventy-fourth day before the primary election, the provisions of
      section 43.11 notwithstanding.  If the vacancy occurs later than
      eighty-nine days before the date of that primary election, but not
      less than eighty-nine days before the date of the general election,
      the nominations shall be made in the manner prescribed by this
      chapter for filling vacancies in nominations for offices to be voted
      for at the general election.
         2.  When a vacancy occurs in the office of county supervisor or
      any of the offices listed in section 39.17 and more than seventy days
      remain in the term of office following the next general election, the
      office shall be filled for the balance of the unexpired term at that
      general election unless the vacancy has been filled by a special
      election called more than seventy-three days before the primary
      election.  If the vacancy occurs more than seventy-three days before
      the primary election, political party candidates for that office at
      the next general election shall be nominated at the primary election.
      If an appointment to fill the vacancy in office is made eighty-eight
      or more days before the primary election and a petition requesting a
      special election has not been received within fourteen days after the
      appointment is made, candidates for the office shall be nominated at
      the primary election.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [R60, § 674; C73, § 26; C97, § 30; S13, § 1087-c; C24, 27, 31, 35,
      39, § 532; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §
      43.6] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         89 Acts, ch 136, §3; 94 Acts, ch 1180, §2; 97 Acts, ch 170, § 2;
      2007 Acts, ch 59, §2, 19
         Vacancies filled by governor, § 69.8(1, 2)