2014 Iowa Code
TITLE IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT
SUBTITLE 4 - CITIES
CHAPTER 376 - CITY ELECTIONS
SECTION 376.7 - Date of primary.

376.7  Date of primary.

1.  If a primary election is necessary, it shall be held on the Tuesday four weeks before the date of the regular city election.  For each office on the ballot, a voter shall only vote for the number of persons to be elected to that office at the regular city election.  The county board of supervisors shall publicly canvass the tally lists of the vote cast in the primary election, following the procedures prescribed in section 50.24, at a meeting to be held on the second day following the primary election, and beginning no earlier than 1:00 p.m. on that day.

2.  The names of those candidates who receive the highest number of votes for each office on the primary election ballot, to the extent of twice the number of unfilled positions, must be placed on the ballot for the regular city election as candidates for that office.

[S13, §1056-a21; SS15, §1056-b5; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §6493, 6507, 6643; C46, 50, §416.17, 416.31, 419.29; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, §363.17, 363.24; C75, 77, 79, 81, §376.7]

86 Acts, ch 1224, §36; 2010 Acts, ch 1033, §52

Referred to in §331.383, 372.13, 376.3