Sec. 9-426. Cancellation of primary for office or town committee due to vacancies in non-party-endorsed candidacies. Slate vacancies.
Sec. 9-426. Cancellation of primary for office or town committee due to vacancies in non-party-endorsed candidacies. Slate vacancies. If only one candidacy has
been filed by a person other than a party-endorsed candidate for the nomination by a
political party to a particular office and the candidate whose candidacy has been so filed
thereafter, but prior to the opening of the polls at such primary, dies, withdraws his name
from nomination or for any reason becomes disqualified to hold the office for which he
is a candidate, no primary shall be held for the nomination of such party to that office
and the party-endorsed candidate for such office shall be deemed to have been lawfully
chosen in the same manner and to the same extent as is provided in sections 9-382 to
9-450, inclusive, in the case where no candidacy other than a party-endorsed candidacy
has been filed. If candidacies have been filed by only one group of persons other than
party-endorsed candidates for election to a town committee, and the candidates whose
candidacies have been so filed thereafter, but prior to the opening of the polls at such
primary, die, withdraw their names from nomination or for any reason become disqualified to hold the positions for which they are candidates, so as to render the number of
candidacies so filed less than twenty-five per cent of the number of town committee
members to be elected by such party either in the municipality or in the political subdivision, as the case may be, no primary shall be held for those positions and the party-endorsed candidates for such positions shall be deemed to have been lawfully chosen
in the same manner and to the same extent as is provided in sections 9-382 to 9-450,
inclusive, in the case where no candidacies other than party-endorsed candidacies have
been filed. If any person on a slate, prior to the opening of the polls at such primary,
dies, withdraws his name from nomination or for any reason becomes disqualified to
hold the position for which he is a candidate, such partial slate shall appear on the ballot
label at the primary and, if such partial slate wins, then the remaining members may fill
the vacancy. If only one such slate other than a slate of party-endorsed candidates has
been filed for election and prior to the opening of the polls at such primary each of the
persons on such slate dies, withdraws or becomes disqualified, no primary shall be held
for those positions and the party-endorsed candidates for those positions shall be deemed
to have been lawfully chosen in the same manner and to the same extent as is provided
in sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, in the case where no candidacies other than party-endorsed candidacies have been filed.
(June, 1955, S. 599d; November, 1955, S. N82; 1957, P.A. 518, S. 28; 1958 Rev., S. 9-110; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 53; 310,
S. 1; P.A. 83-475, S. 27, 43; P.A. 03-241, S. 38.)
History: 1963 acts restated previous provisions and made technical revision of language; P.A. 83-475 amended section
to apply to withdrawal from nomination at any time before opening of polls at primary; P.A. 03-241 deleted exclusion re
persons on a slate "other than a slate of party-endorsed candidates for election as delegates or district delegates to a particular
convention of a political party", effective January 1, 2004, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date.