2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 43 - PARTISAN NOMINATIONS == PRIMARY ELECTION
43.79 - DEATH OF CANDIDATE AFTER TIME FOR WITHDRAWAL.

        43.79  DEATH OF CANDIDATE AFTER TIME FOR WITHDRAWAL.

         The death of a candidate nominated as provided by law for any
      office to be filled at a general election, during the period
      beginning on the eighty-eighth day before the general election, in
      the case of any candidate whose nomination papers were filed with the
      state commissioner, or beginning on the seventy-third day before the
      general election, in the case of any candidate whose nomination
      papers were filed with the commissioner, and ending on the last day
      before the general election shall not operate to remove the deceased
      candidate's name from the general election ballot.  If the deceased
      candidate was seeking the office of senator or representative in the
      Congress of the United States, governor, attorney general, senator or
      representative in the general assembly or county supervisor, section
      49.58 shall control.  If the deceased candidate was seeking any other
      office, and as a result of the candidate's death a vacancy is
      subsequently found to exist, the vacancy shall be filled as provided
      by chapter 69.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [S13, § 1087-a24a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 607; C46, 50, 54,
      58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 43.79] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         89 Acts, ch 136, § 23; 97 Acts, ch 170, § 4