Title 18 — Elections
17 chapters · 232 sections in this title.
18 V.I.C. § 96 Notice of registration
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Within seven days before the first day of each month, the Chairman of the Board of Elections for each election district shall cause to be published in the local newspapers of general circulation in his district, and posted at the offices of the Board and at three public places in…
18 V.I.C. § 97 Attendance of board or registrars at registration place
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The places of elector registration established pursuant to section 95 of this title shall be open continuously during the hours specified in the public notices published pursuant to section 96 of this title. During the time any elector is being registered, only members of the boa…
18 V.I.C. § 98 Closing time of registration place
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All applicants entitled to register who are in the place where the registration is held at or before the time of closing shall be allowed to register if qualified.
18 V.I.C. § 99 Registration cards; preparation and distribution
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(a) For the purpose of registering the qualified electors of the election districts, the Supervisor of Elections shall prepare and furnish to each board of elections registration cards, serially numbered, in duplicate, and containing spaces for entering the information required b…
18 V.I.C. § 151 Appointment of election officers and clerks; vacancies; conduct of elections
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(a) The board of elections in each legislative district shall, not later than 20 days prior to the day on which a primary or election is to be held, appoint, as election officers, one Judge of Election and one inspector of election for each polling district in the district. The b…
18 V.I.C. § 152 Qualifications of election officers and clerks
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(a) Election officers and clerks shall be qualified registered electors of the election district in which they are appointed. (b) No election officer or clerk shall be eligible for any public office to be voted for at a primary or election at which he shall serve. (c) The boards …
18 V.I.C. § 153 Election officers and clerks to be sworn
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(a) Pursuant to section 151, subsection (a) of this title, all judges, inspectors, voting machine monitors, and clerks of election shall be duly sworn by the Chairman of the Board of Elections of the district in which they are to serve, or, in his absence, by another member of th…
18 V.I.C. § 154 Oath of election officers
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The following shall be the form of the oath of each judge, inspector, voting machine monitor or clerk of electionI, , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will as judge, inspector, voting machine monitor or clerk duly attend the ensuing election (or primary) during the continuanc…
18 V.I.C. § 157 Power of election officers to administer oaths
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The judge and inspectors of election may administer oaths or affirmations to any person claiming the right to vote, or to his witnesses, or in any matter or thing required to be done or inquired into by them under this title.
18 V.I.C. § 158 Compensation of election officers and clerks
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(a) For each primary or election, election officers and clerks shall receive compensation from the board of elections which appointed them, as follows:1. Each judge of election, $250.2. Each inspector of election, $225.3. Each clerk of election, $200.4. Each voting machine monito…
18 V.I.C. § 159 Immunity from arrest
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Judges, inspectors, and clerks of election shall be privileged from arrest upon days of primaries and elections, and while engaged in making up and transmitting returns, except upon the warrant of a court of record, or judge thereof, for an election fraud, for felony, or for want…
18 V.I.C. § 191 Polling districts for the Island of St. Thomas and adjacent islets and cays
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(1) There shall be seven polling districts for the Island of St. Thomas and adjacent islets and cays, as follows:(1) The Eastern polling district of King's quarter, comprising that portion of the King's quarter of the Town of Charlotte Amalie bounded on the south by the sea, on t…
18 V.I.C. § 192 Polling districts for the Island of St. John and adjacent islets and cays
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(1) There shall be two polling districts for the Island of St. John and adjacent islets and cays, as follows:(1) The Cruz Bay polling district, comprising the Cruz Bay and Reef Bay quarters of the Island of Saint John, Grass, Mingo, Lovango and Congo Cays and adjacent islets and …
18 V.I.C. § 193 Polling districts for the Island of St. Croix and adjacent islets and cays
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(1) There shall be five polling districts for the Island of St. Croix and adjacent islets and cays, as follows:(1) The Eastern polling district of Christiansted Town, comprising that portion of the Town of Christiansted bounded on the north by the sea, on the east and south by th…
18 V.I.C. § 194 Polling places to be fixed by election boards
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(a) The board of elections in each election district shall select and fix as many polling places for each polling district under its jurisdiction, herein or hereafter established as it may deem necessary. For the Island of St. Thomas and St. Croix, the polling places for any poll…
18 V.I.C. § 195 Same; use of public buildings
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(a) In selecting polling places, each board of elections shall, whenever possible and practicable, select schoolhouses or other public, civic, or fraternal buildings for that purpose. Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, the Commissioner of Education, or o…
18 V.I.C. § 196 Equipment and arrangement of polling places; guard rail; number of booths
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(a) Each board of elections shall cause all rooms used as polling places to be suitably provided with light and with a sufficient number of voting compartments or booths with proper supplies, in which electors may conveniently mark their ballots, with a curtain, screen or door in…
18 V.I.C. § 197 Compensation for rent and light
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Each board of elections shall fix the compensation for rent, light and janitorial services to be paid for the use of polling places for primaries and elections, within the legislative district, but no compensation for rent or light shall be paid in the case of schoolhouses or oth…
18 V.I.C. § 231 General elections
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General elections shall be held in the Virgin Islands on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, beginning with the year 1964, and every two years thereafter, for the purpose of choosing members of the legislature and such other public officers as are required by la…
18 V.I.C. § 232 Primary elections
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Party primary elections shall be held in the Virgin Islands on the first Saturday of August for the purpose of choosing candidates for nomination to public offices to be voted for at the ensuing general election. The Board of Elections will be responsible for certifying the proce…
18 V.I.C. § 261 Qualifications generally
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Except as provided in this chapter, every resident of the Virgin Islands, who is a citizen of the United States and is 18 years of age or over, has the right to franchise, and shall be entitled to vote at all elections if he or she has complied with the provisions of this title r…
18 V.I.C. § 262 Residence defined
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(a) For the purposes of this title, “resident of the Virgin Islands” is a person who has maintained legal residence in the Virgin Islands and in the election district in which he desires to vote for a period of at least 90 days next preceding the date of the election. A registere…
18 V.I.C. § 263 Loss of franchise by felon; mental incompetents
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(a) No inmate of a public or private institution for the insane and no person under the care of a guardian by reason of any mental incapacity shall be entitled to vote. (b) Every person who has been convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction of a felony or of a crime involvin…
18 V.I.C. § 264 Status of members of armed forces as to franchise
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For the purpose of this title, no person on active duty in the armed services of the United States or any person residing on active military reservations shall be deemed to have acquired residence in the Virgin Islands in consequence of having been stationed within the same.
18 V.I.C. § 265 Certified Listing of Electors
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The Boards of Elections shall provide political parties with a certified listing of all registered party members as of the close of registration, fifteen days prior to a primary election.
18 V.I.C. § 301 Political parties and political bodies
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(a) Any political party in the Virgin Islands which is the officially recognized affiliate of either of the two major national political parties (of either the Democratic National Committee or the Republican National Committee) and each other political party or political body, on…
18 V.I.C. § 302 Only enrolled electors to vote at primaries or hold party offices
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No person who is not registered and enrolled as a member of a political party may vote at any primary election of such party, be elected to serve as a party officer or a member or officer of any party committee or as a delegate or alternate to any party convention, or be nominate…
18 V.I.C. § 303 Territorial committees
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(a) Each political party in the Virgin Islands shall have a territorial committee which shall be comprised of thirty (30) elected members as follows:(1) eight (8) members from the election district of St. Thomas-St. John, six (6) of whom shall reside on St. Thomas and two (2) of …
18 V.I.C. § 304 Organization of territorial committees; rules
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(a) The members of the territorial committee shall meet for organization within 10 days following the primary, at such hour and place as shall be designated by the territorial chairman of each political party; provided, however, that the Supervisor of Elections shall designate th…
18 V.I.C. § 305 Other party committees and offices
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The members of all other party committees, and all other party officers, whose election is required by the party rules, shall be elected at the primary in the manner provided by this title; provided, that in any event, where the party rules provide for such offices, the national …
18 V.I.C. § 306 Candidates who shall be declared elected to party offices; tie vote
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(a) Candidates for the various political parties for party offices who receive a plurality of the votes of the party electors at a primary election shall be declared elected. (b) In the case of a tie vote for any party office, the candidates receiving the tie vote shall cast lots…
18 V.I.C. § 307 Primary for particular office prohibited if number of nomination petitions exactly equals number to be elected; declaration of election
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If the number of candidates who filed nomination petitions for a particular party office exactly equals the number of persons who are to be elected to such office, no party primary with respect to such office shall be held, and, in such a case, the Supervisor of Elections shall d…
18 V.I.C. § 341 Determination and certification of political parties
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The Supervisor of Elections shall determine which organizations are political parties within the meaning of section 301 of this title, and, not later than the tenth Tuesday preceding each primary, shall transmit to each board of elections a list of such political parties which sh…
18 V.I.C. § 342 Candidates to be nominated and party officers to be elected at primaries
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Except as provided in sections 307 and 359 and as otherwise provided by law, all candidates of political parties, as defined in section 301 of this title, for public offices shall be nominated, and candidates for party offices which, under this title, are required to be elected b…
18 V.I.C. § 342a Prohibition against persons registered to a political party running as a no-party or independent candidate
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Any person running for public office must run as a candidate consistent with the political party designation under which the candidate is registered at the time of the filing of the nomination petition, whether the political party designation indicates an affiliation with a polit…
18 V.I.C. § 343 Ascertainment of offices for which candidates are to be nominated
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The Supervisor of Elections prior to each primary shall ascertain the public offices to be filled at the ensuing general election, and for which candidates are to be nominated at such primary, and otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of this title.
18 V.I.C. § 344 Nomination petitions
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(a) The name of no person may be placed on the official primary ballot of a political party as a candidate for public or party office unless a petition in accordance with the provisions of this section has been filed in his behalf and unless he is a duly registered voter and enro…
18 V.I.C. § 345 Manner of signing nomination petitions; time of circulating
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(a) Each signer of a nomination petition as provided for in section 344(b) of this subchapter shall sign but one such petition for each office to be filled, except that, where there are to be elected two or more persons to the same office, each signer may sign petitions for as ma…
18 V.I.C. § 346 Composition of petition; affidavit of circulator
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(1) A nomination petition as provided for in section 344(b) of this subchapter may be on one or more sheets, and different sheets shall be used for signers resident in different election districts. If more than one sheet is used, they shall be bound together when offered for fili…
18 V.I.C. § 347 Number of signers required
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(1) Nomination petitions under section 344(b) of this subchapter of candidates at primaries shall be signed:(1) if for a public office to be filled by a vote of the electors of the territory of the Virgin Islands at large, or for a party office to be filled by election at large, …
18 V.I.C. § 348 Affidavits of candidates
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(1) Each candidate for any public or party office shall file with his nomination petition his affidavit, stating:(1) his residence, with street and number if any, and his post office address;(2) his election district;(3) the name of the office for which he consents to be a candid…
18 V.I.C. § 349 Repealed. Nov. 15, 1971, No. 3127, § 8. Sess. L. 1971, p. 364
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18 V.I.C. § 349 Statutes current through Act 9046 of the 2025 session of the 36th Legislature, including all code changes through October 25, 2025 Virgin Islands Code AnnotatedCopyright © 2026 All rights reserved.
18 V.I.C. § 350 Withdrawal of candidates
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Any of the candidates for nomination or election at a primary may withdraw his name as a candidate by a request in writing, signed by him and acknowledged before an officer empowered to administer oaths, and filed in the office in which his nomination petition was filed. The with…
18 V.I.C. § 351 Casting of lots for position of names upon official primary ballots; notice to candidates
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The fourth Friday in May of the election year, the Supervisor of Elections shall fix a day for the casting of lots, in such a manner as may be prescribed by the Supervisor, for the position of names on the official primary ballots. The Supervisor of Elections shall give at least …
18 V.I.C. § 352 Furnishing election boards with list of candidates; notice to candidates
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The Supervisor of Elections, as soon after the casting of lots as possible, shall forward to the board of elections a correct list of candidates for each party for the various offices, in the order in which their names will appear on the official ballots, with their respective re…
18 V.I.C. § 353 Death of person named in nomination petition
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Where a nomination petition has been duly filed under this subchapter, and thereafter, but prior to the printing of the official ballots, the candidate named in the petition dies, the original signers of the petition or a majority of them may sign another petition proposing a new…
18 V.I.C. § 354 Electronic voting machines, and all auxiliary equipment and other supplies for primaries
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Electronic voting machines, and all auxiliary equipment, and other supplies for primaries shall be prepared, provided and delivered to district election officers, in accordance with the provisions of this title, insofar as they are applicable to primaries.
18 V.I.C. § 355 Conduct of primaries; voting for candidates at large; symbol voting for entire slate
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(a) Primaries shall be conducted by the district election officers and clerks, of each election district, and the votes cast thereat counted and returned in the manner provided by chapter 23 of this title, insofar as it is applicable to primaries. (b) The names of all candidates …
18 V.I.C. § 356 Primary election returns
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The returns made by the district election officers of the votes cast at primaries shall be received by the respective boards of elections, and tabulated and computed by them, and their returns to the Supervisor of Elections tabulated and computed by him in the manner provided by …
18 V.I.C. § 357 Which candidates nominated; district candidates; at large candidates; designation of straight party vote candidates; designation certificates
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(a) The nominees of the various political parties for candidate for public office from the various election districts who receive the largest number of votes of their party electors in their districts, in the primary election, shall be declared the candidates for their respective…