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118.345 Defeated primary candidate barred from having name on regular election ballot -- Section not applicable to presidential preference primary candidates.

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118.345 Defeated primary candidate barred from having name on regular election ballot -- Section not applicable to presidential preference primary candidates. (1) No candidate who has been defeated for the nomination for any office in a primary election shall have his name placed on voting machines in the succeeding regular <br>election as a candidate for the same office for the nomination to which he was a <br>candidate in the primary election, except that if a vacancy occurs in the party <br>nomination for which he was a candidate in the primary election his name may be <br>placed on voting machines for the regular election as a candidate of that party if he <br>has been duly made such party nominee after the vacancy occurs as provided in <br>KRS 118.105. (2) No person who was a candidate for nomination for any office in a primary election and who, before the succeeding regular election, is declared by the judgment of any <br>court of competent jurisdiction to have violated, in the primary election, any <br>provision of KRS Chapter 121, or to be responsible for such violation by others, <br>shall have his name placed on voting machines for any office to be voted for in the <br>succeeding regular election. (3) This section does not apply to presidential preference primary candidates. Effective: July 15, 1986 <br>History: Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 29, sec. 14, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 111, sec. 64, effective July 13, 1984; and ch. 185, sec. 19, <br>effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 394, sec. 27, effective July <br>15, 1982. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 54, sec. 27, effective March 10, 1976. -- <br>Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 130, sec. 120, effective June 21, 1974.