Title 2, Elections

Each state executive committee may, by vote of its members, temporarily fill a vacancy in its membership due to death, resignation, disqualification, change of residence, persistent absence from meetings without good cause, or violation of the oath of office until a successor is …

(1) When acting as the state primary board of its party, the state executive committee shall operate subject to the following provisions:(1) The chair and secretary of the committee, duly elected under the rules of the political party, shall be the chair and secretary of the boar…

(a) (1) To be recognized as a minor party for purposes of a primary election, a petition as required in § 2-1-104 must be filed no later than twelve o'clock (12:00) noon, prevailing time, on the appropriate qualifying deadline as established in § 2-5-101(a) in the office of the c…

(a) (1) Each state primary board shall meet at a public building in Nashville at least once in every even-numbered year at the call of its chair, or on such other occasions as may be necessary in order that it may fulfill its duties under this title.(2) Meetings of each state pri…

Members of the county primary boards shall be bona fide members of the political party to whose county primary board they are appointed.

(a) Each state primary board shall appoint the members of its county primary boards from lists submitted by the county executive committees. (b) Where the list submitted by the county executive committee is not divided fairly among the elements of the party, the state primary boa…

The county primary boards shall organize within ten (10) days after their appointment by the election of a chair and secretary.

Each county primary board shall immediately notify its state primary board upon the occurrence of any vacancy in its membership. The state primary board shall appoint new members to fill any vacancies in the membership of its county primary boards due to death, resignation or oth…

The state and county election commissions shall furnish to the state and county primary boards such information and such access to records as may be required to enable the boards to carry out their duties under this title.

(a) The state executive committees for each statewide political party are urged to jointly establish a calendar of appearances in each county in this state enabling their respective gubernatorial candidates to appear together during the time between the primary and general electi…

A person who is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces, a member of the Tennessee national guard, a member of the Tennessee air national guard, or an inactive reservist of any of the United States uniformed military services in good standing must not be…

(1) No person's name may be shown on a ballot as the nominee of a political party for the offices named in § 2-13-202 or for any office to be voted on by the voters of a county, unless the political party:(1) Is a statewide political party or a recognized minor party; and(2) Has …

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) and part 3 of this chapter, statewide political parties shall nominate their candidates in primary elections for all offices for which partisan elections are held at the regular August or regular November election. (b) (1) In a county in w…

(a) (1) Statewide political parties may nominate their candidates for any office other than those required by § 2-13-202 to be nominated in a primary election by any method authorized under the rules of the party or by primary election under this title.(2) Recognized minor partie…

(a) If a political party's candidate for any office dies or withdraws because of military call-up for the draft, or physical or mental disability, such physical or mental disability being properly documented by competent medical authority, or is forced to change residence by the …

On the first Tuesday in March before presidential electors are elected, a presidential preference primary shall be held for each statewide political party. If no candidate will appear on the presidential preference primary ballot of a political party under § 2-5-205, no president…

All counties in the state which have a metropolitan form of government shall bear the expense of holding county primary elections for those political parties qualified under this chapter.

The city council of any such metropolitan government may set any reasonable filing fees up to five hundred dollars ($500).

(a) Notwithstanding other provisions of this part, municipal elections shall be nonpartisan. Municipal elections shall not require candidates to be nominated by political parties unless the municipality's charter specifically permits partisan elections. When a municipality's char…

(a) In order to qualify as a candidate in a primary election for United States senate or for member of the United States house of representatives, a person shall meet the residency requirements for state senators and representatives contained in the Tennessee constitution. (b) Th…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Southern Regional Presidential Convention Delegate Act of 1986.”

On the date established in § 2-13-205 in 2004, and every four (4) years thereafter, an election will be held to elect delegates to the national conventions of all statewide political parties.

(a) On the date established in § 2-5-205(c) next preceding the election, the chair of each statewide political party will certify to the secretary of state and the coordinator of elections the number of delegates and alternates to the national convention allocated by the national…

(a) On the date established in § 2-5-205(a)(2), the secretary of state shall notify all nationally recognized candidates for president that their names are to be placed on the Tennessee presidential preference primary ballot. Such notice shall also be given at the same time to al…

(a) Candidates for election as delegates to the national convention of a political party shall qualify by filing nominating petitions no later than twelve o'clock (12:00) noon prevailing time on the date established in § 2-5-101(a)(3) which is prior to the presidential election y…

Nominating petitions shall be in substantially the following form and the information thereon shall be verified by the county election commission: We, the undersigned registered voters of the state of Tennessee and members of the (respective) party, hereby nominate (candidate's n…

(a) At the time of filing the nominating petition, the candidate for delegate to a national convention shall also file a declaration of candidacy which shall be in the following form:I (candidate's name) declare that I reside in County and am a qualified and registered voter in t…

(1) At the time the declaration of candidacy is filed as provided by § 2-13-307, a delegate-candidate shall indicate in writing to the secretary of state so that the ballot may so indicate, that the delegate-candidate is either:(1) An uncommitted delegate; or(2) Supporting a part…

(a) In the event that the delegate-candidate is subject to § 2-13-308(2), the delegate-candidate shall provide the secretary of state with the presidential candidate's written consent thereto no later than twelve o'clock (12:00) noon prevailing time at the time the nominating pet…

(a) Certified copies of the original nominating petition and declaration of delegate candidacy shall be filed by the secretary of state with the coordinator of elections, with the chair of the state executive committee of the candidate's party, and with the chair of the state ele…

(1) The names of the candidates for president and delegate-candidate shall appear on the ballot as follows:(1) The names of the presidential candidates shall be listed vertically within the first three (3) columns for each respective party's primary election. The presidential can…

Each voter of the political parties shall cast one (1) vote for such voter's preference for candidate for president or for the uncommitted designation and shall vote for as many delegate-candidates as there are to be delegates from such congressional district.

Delegates elected from a congressional district shall be allocated among the presidential candidates and the uncommitted designation as proportionally as is mathematically possible to the number of votes received in the presidential preference election within such congressional d…

(a) Delegates-at-large and alternates shall be allocated among the presidential candidates or an uncommitted designation so that the proportion of total delegates committed to any candidate shall equal, as mathematically as is possible, the proportion of the vote received by that…

The delegate-candidate, or delegate-candidates, according to the number allocated for any presidential candidate or for the uncommitted designation, receiving the highest number of votes shall be certified as that political party's delegate or delegates to the party's national co…

Vacancies in the delegation to the national nominating convention of a political party shall be filled in accordance with the rules of the respective party.

The results of the preferential presidential primary shall be binding on the delegates to the national conventions as provided in this section. The delegates to the national conventions shall be bound by the results of the preferential presidential primary for the first two (2) b…

It is the intent of this part that delegate selection comply with the delegate selection rules of the delegates' respective national or state party.

The elections shall be conducted in accordance with chapters 1-19 of this title. Contested elections shall be determined in the manner provided for the determination of contested elections for primary candidates for statewide office.

All other laws notwithstanding, any county which shall have a special election to fill a county legislative body vacancy to correspond with the date of the presidential preference primary previously set forth in the former law may by resolution of the county legislative body sche…