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2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 5 - Municipal Corporations
CHAPTER 15 - NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS FOR MUNICIPAL OFFICES
Section 5-15-61. Determination of election results under nonpartisan plurality method.
Universal Citation: SC Code § 5-15-61 (2017)
In conducting nonpartisan elections and using the plurality method, election results shall be determined in accordance with the following rules:
(1) When more than one person is seeking election to a single office, the candidate who receives the highest number of votes shall be declared elected.
(2) When more persons are seeking election to two or more offices (constituting a group) than there are offices to be filled, those candidates receiving the highest number of votes, equal in number to the number of offices to be filled, shall be declared elected.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-94.1; 1977 Act No. 81, Section 1.
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