2010 Tennessee Code
Title 2 - Elections
Chapter 13 - Political Parties and Primaries
Part 2 - Selection of Candidates
2-13-201 - Party nominations Requirements.

2-13-201. Party nominations Requirements.

(a)  No person's name may be shown on a ballot as the nominee of a political party for the offices named in § 2-13-202 or for any office voted on by the voters of more than one (1) county unless the political party:

     (1)  Is a statewide political party; and

     (2)  Has nominated the person substantially in compliance with this chapter.

(b)  (1)  No person's name may be shown on a ballot as the nominee of a local political party unless:

          (A)  At least one (1) of the candidates of the political party received at the most recent local election at least twenty percent (20%) of the total vote cast for the office for which the person was a candidate; or

          (B)  Within one (1) year before the election the local political party has filed with the county election commission a petition for recognition as a local political party signed by at least five percent (5%) of the registered voters of the county or municipality in which it seeks to nominate candidates.

     (2)  Local political parties nominating candidates under this section shall nominate candidates by methods, other than primary election, authorized by the rules of the party and certify their names by the qualifying deadlines to the county election commission. Local political parties may only nominate candidates under this section for offices which are not covered by subsection (a).

[Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; T.C.A., § 2-1301.]