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2018 Code of Virginia
Title 24.2 - Elections
Chapter 5 - Candidates for Office
Article 1. Qualifications and Requirements of All Candidates
- § 24.2-500. Qualification of candidates
- § 24.2-501. Statement of qualification as requirement of candidacy
- § 24.2-502. Statement of economic interests as requirement of candidacy
- § 24.2-503. Deadlines for filing required statements; extensions
- § 24.2-503.1. Repealed
- § 24.2-504. Persons entitled to have name printed on ballot
Article 2. Independent Candidates
- § 24.2-505. Declaration of candidacy required of independent candidates
- § 24.2-506. Petition of qualified voters required; number of signatures required; certain towns excepted
- § 24.2-507. Deadlines for filing declarations and petitions of candidacy
Article 3. Nominations of Candidates by Political Parties
- § 24.2-508. Powers of political parties in general
- § 24.2-509. Party to determine method of nominating its candidates for office; exceptions
- § 24.2-510. Deadlines for parties to nominate by methods other than primary
- § 24.2-511. Party chairman or official to certify candidates to State Board and general registrars; failure to certify
Article 4. Conduct of Primaries
- § 24.2-512. Primaries to be conducted in accordance with article
- § 24.2-513. Provisions as to general elections applicable
- § 24.2-514. To what nominations this article applies
- § 24.2-515. Presidential election year primaries
- § 24.2-515.1. Schedule for primaries in the year 2001 and each tenth year thereafter
- § 24.2-516. Party to furnish names of chairmen and notify State Board of adoption of direct primary
- § 24.2-517. State Board to order election
- § 24.2-518. County and city treasurers to pay primary expenses; certain uses of machinery by party
- § 24.2-519. Qualification of primary candidates
- § 24.2-520. Declaration of candidacy required
- § 24.2-521. Petition required to accompany declaration; number of signatures required
- § 24.2-522. When and to whom filings to be made
- § 24.2-523. Candidates to pay fee before filing
- § 24.2-524. To whom fees paid; refund of fees
- § 24.2-525. Persons entitled to have name printed on ballot
- § 24.2-526. Primary not to be held when less than two candidates declare
- § 24.2-527. Chairman or official to furnish State Board and general registrars with names of candidates and certify petition signature requirements met
- § 24.2-528. No primary candidate to be nominated by convention
- § 24.2-529. Primary ballots
- § 24.2-530. Who may vote in primary
- § 24.2-531. Pollbooks used during primaries
- § 24.2-532. Abstracts of votes; law-enforcement officer to obtain returns not forwarded
- § 24.2-533. Repealed
- § 24.2-534. Returns tabulated by State Board; when nominee declared
- § 24.2-535. Vote required to nominate
- § 24.2-536. Procedure when a vacancy in office occurs less than 75 days before primary date
- § 24.2-537. Procedure when nominee by default dies or withdraws or nomination is set aside prior to primary
- § 24.2-538. Procedure when opposed candidate for nomination dies prior to primary
Article 5. Death, Withdrawal, or Disqualification of Party Nominee
- § 24.2-539. Party may nominate when nominee dies, withdraws, or nomination is set aside; duty of party chairman
- § 24.2-540. Other parties may also nominate; independent candidates
- § 24.2-541. Printing of names on ballot
Article 6. Nominations for Presidential Elections
- § 24.2-542. State Board to be furnished names of electors selected by political parties; oaths of electors
- § 24.2-542.1. State Board to be furnished names of electors selected by political parties; certain national conventions
- § 24.2-543. How other groups may submit names of electors; oaths of electors
Article 7. Presidential Year Primaries
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