Title 16.1, Elections

On the second Tuesday in June of every general election year, a primary election must be held for the nomination of candidates for the following offices in the years of their regular election: United States senators, member of the United States house of representatives, members o…

1. An individual may not participate directly or indirectly in the endorsement for nomination of more than one individual for each office to be filled, except an individual may sign a petition for placement of a candidate's name on the primary ballot: a. For more than one individ…

1. Every candidate for United States senator, United States representative, a state office, including the office of state senator or state representative, and judges of the supreme and district courts shall present to the secretary of state, between the first date candidates may …

No reference may be made to a party ballot or to the party affiliation of a candidate in a petition and affidavit filed by or on behalf of a candidate for nomination in the primary election to an elective county office, the office of judge of the supreme court, judge of the distr…

A certificate of endorsement filed with the proper officer as provided in this chapter must be in substantially the following form: CERTIFICATE OF ENDORSEMENT I, ______________, do certify that I am the state (district) chairman of the ______________ political party of the ______…

Upon receipt by the secretary of state of the petition or certificate of endorsement provided for in section 16.1-11-06 accompanied by the following affidavit, the secretary of state shall place the applicant's name upon the primary election ballot in the columns of the applicant…

Every candidate for a county office shall present a petition to the county auditor of the county in which the candidate resides between the first date candidates may begin circulating nominating petitions according to this chapter and four p.m. of the sixty-fourth day before any …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county may not submit a measure for consideration of the voters at a primary, general, or special statewide, district, or county election after four p.m. on the sixty-fourth day before the election. A city that has combined its regula…

1. Upon receipt of the petition or certificate of endorsement provided for in section 16.1-11-06, accompanied by an affidavit as provided in section 16.1-11-10, the secretary of state shall place the name of the applicant on the primary election ballot in the party or appropriate…

No nominating petition provided for in sections 16.1-11-06 and 16.1-11-11 may be circulated or signed prior to January first preceding the primary election. Any signatures to a petition secured before that time may not be counted. A nominating petition for a special election may …

1. Each nominating petition circulated by candidates for any state, district, county, or other political subdivision office must include or have attached the following information, which must be made available to each signer at the time of signing: a. The candidate's name, addres…

1. If a vacancy occurs in any party certificate of endorsement at the primary election for any state or legislative district office, the proper state or district executive committee of the political party may fill the vacancy by filing another certificate of endorsement with the …

1. If a vacancy exists on a no-party ballot for a state office or for judge of a district court, the vacancy may be filled by filing with the secretary of state, before four p.m. on the sixty-fourth day before the primary election, a written petition as provided in section 16.1-1…

At least fifty-five days before any primary election, the secretary of state shall transmit electronically to each county auditor a certified list containing the names of each individual for whom nomination papers have been filed in the secretary of state's office and who is enti…

The county auditor shall publish, once each week for two consecutive weeks before the primary election, in the official county newspaper, and if no newspaper is published in the county then in a newspaper published in an adjoining county in the state, a notice accompanied by a st…

At the primary election there may be only one ballot containing the separate sections for all parties or principles. The judges and the inspector of elections shall inform each elector at the primary, before voting, if the voter votes for candidates of more than one political par…

There must be a separate ballot at all primary elections which must be entitled "no-party primary ballot". The names of aspirants for nomination to each office must be arranged on the no-party primary ballot in separate groups in their order. The separate ballot may be on the sam…

The no-party ballot must be prepared, printed, distributed, canvassed, and returned in the same manner provided for other primary election ballots.

The primary election ballot for party nominations shall contain the following offices in the following order under each party column: 1. Congressional: United States senator representative in Congress 2. Legislative: state senator __________ district state representative ________…

Sample ballots used for publication purposes must be arranged using the rotation of the ballot in the precinct and ordered according to the precincts with the greatest eligible voter population to the least. On the official ballot used at the election, including electronic voting…

Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, the primary election ballot must be prepared as provided in chapter 16.1-06.

Any party that had printed on the ballot at the last preceding presidential election the names of a set of presidential electors pledged to the election of the party's candidates for president and vice president or a candidate for governor and those candidates for presidential el…

Vote tabulation machines must print reports detailing the election results from the precinct after the close of the polls.

The clerks of primary elections shall keep either one paper or one electronic list of the names of all individuals voting at each primary election. The clerks must return the list, which must be a part of the records and filed with other election returns. Only one complete list o…

The judges of a primary election in each polling place shall run a separate report for each political party or principle requesting the report, containing the names of all individuals voted for at the primary election, the number of votes cast for each candidate, and for what off…

This title does not prevent any elector from writing on the paper ballot or entering by touchscreen or other data entry device, the name of any individual for whom the elector desires to vote, and the vote must be counted according to the provisions for the counting of write-in v…

An individual may not be deemed nominated as a candidate for any office at any primary election unless that individual receives a number of votes at least equal to the number of signatures required on a petition to have a candidate's name for that office placed on the primary bal…

The number of individuals to be nominated as candidates for any one no-party office is the number of individuals who receive the highest number of votes and who total twice the number of available positions for the office if that many individuals are candidates for nomination. Ho…

In case of a tie vote the nominee or nominees must be determined by a drawing of names in the presence of the candidates upon at least five days' notice to each candidate, by the canvassing board or boards concerned, at a time and place designated by the board. A candidate involv…

1. All individuals nominated in accordance with this chapter are eligible as candidates to be voted for at the ensuing general election, except as provided in this section. 2. Upon receipt of the documents filed by each candidate, the filing officer immediately shall complete a t…

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the primary election ballot must be arranged, and the primary election must be provided for, conducted, and the expenses thereof paid as in the case of a general election.