§ 26-1-103. Runoff primary election.

If at any Primary Election no candidate for the nomination for office of any political party receives a majority of all votes cast for all candidates of such party for the office, no candidate shall be nominated by such party for the office, but the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes at such election shall be placed on the official ballot as candidates for such nomination at a Runoff Primary Election to be held on the fourth Tuesday of August in the same year.  No county, municipality or school district shall schedule an election on any date during the twenty (20) days immediately preceding the date of any such Runoff Primary Election.

Added by Laws 1974, c. 153, § 1-103, operative Jan. 1, 1975.  Amended by Laws 1977, c. 134, § 2; Laws 2003, c. 162, § 3.