43.79 - DEATH OF CANDIDATE AFTER TIME FOR WITHDRAWAL.
43.79 DEATH OF CANDIDATE AFTER TIME FOR WITHDRAWAL.
The death of a candidate nominated as provided by law for any
office to be filled at a general election, during the period
beginning on the eighty-eighth day before the general election, in
the case of any candidate whose nomination papers were filed with the
state commissioner, or beginning on the seventy-third day before the
general election, in the case of any candidate whose nomination
papers were filed with the commissioner, and ending on the last day
before the general election shall not operate to remove the deceased
candidate's name from the general election ballot. If the deceased
candidate was seeking the office of senator or representative in the
Congress of the United States, governor, attorney general, senator or
representative in the general assembly or county supervisor, section
49.58 shall control. If the deceased candidate was seeking any other
office, and as a result of the candidate's death a vacancy is
subsequently found to exist, the vacancy shall be filled as provided
by chapter 69. Section History: Early Form
[S13, § 1087-a24a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 607; C46, 50, 54,
58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 43.79] Section History: Recent Form
89 Acts, ch 136, § 23; 97 Acts, ch 170, § 4