Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3513 - Primaries; Nominations

• Section 3513.01 - Primary Elections.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section and section 3517.012 of the Revised Code, on the second Tuesday after the first Monday in...
• Section 3513.02 - Certificate Of Nomination When No Primary Necessary.
  If, in any odd-numbered year, no valid declaration of candidacy is filed for nomination as a candidate of a political party for election to...
• Section 3513.03 - Election Officials For Primary Elections.
  The board of elections shall have all the powers and perform all the duties in connection with primary elections which are imposed by the...
• Section 3513.04 - Filing Declaration Of Candidacy.
  Candidates for party nominations to state, district, county, and municipal offices or positions, for which party nominations are provided by law, and for election...
• Section 3513.041 - Write-in Votes.
  A write-in space shall be provided on the ballot for every office, except in an election for which the board of elections has received...
• Section 3513.05 - Deadline For Filing Declaration Of Candidacy.
  Each person desiring to become a candidate for a party nomination at a primary election or for election to an office or position to...
• Section 3513.051 - County Central Committee May Determine No Need For Petition.
  (A) The county central committee of a political party in a particular county may determine, not later than one hundred twenty days prior to...
• Section 3513.052 - Candidacy For More Than One Office At A Time Prohibited.
  (A) No person shall seek nomination or election to any of the following offices or positions at the same election by filing a declaration...
• Section 3513.06 - Change Of Name Of Candidate.
  If any person desiring to become a candidate for public office has had a change of name within five years immediately preceding the filing...
• Section 3513.07 - Form Of Declaration Of Candidacy And Petition.
  The form of declaration of candidacy and petition of a person desiring to be a candidate for a party nomination or a candidate for...
• Section 3513.08 - Declaration Of Candidacy For Judicial Office.
  Each person filing a declaration of candidacy for nomination at a primary election as a candidate for election to the office of judge of...
• Section 3513.09 - Candidate's Signature.
  If the petition required by section 3513.07 of the Revised Code to be filed with a declaration of candidacy consists of more than one...
• Section 3513.10 - Filing Fees.
  (A) At the time of filing a declaration of candidacy for nomination for any office, or a declaration of intent to be a write-in...
• Section 3513.11 - State Convention Of Major Political Parties.
  In the year 1952 and in each second year thereafter, each major political party in the state may hold a state convention. If a...
• Section 3513.111 - Nominating Candidates For Election As Presidential Electors.
  (A) Any major political party that does not hold a state convention under section 3513.11 of the Revised Code shall nominate candidates for election...
• Section 3513.12 - Delegates To National Party Convention.
  At a presidential primary election, which shall be held on the second Tuesday after the first Monday in March in the year 2016, and...
• Section 3513.121 - Delegates To National Party Convention Alternative Procedures.
  (A) Any candidate for the presidency of the United States who has raised at least five thousand dollars for the primary election in each...
• Section 3513.122 - Electing Delegates And Alternates To Other National Conventions Or Conferences.
  Political parties shall be eligible to elect delegates and alternates to national conventions or conferences of their respective political parties, other than conventions provided...
• Section 3513.13 - Separate Primary Election Ballots For Political Parties.
  Separate primary election ballots shall be provided by the board of elections for each political party having candidates for nomination or election in a...
• Section 3513.131 - Candidates With Identical Surnames.
  In the event two or more persons with identical surnames run for the same office in a primary election on the same ballot, the...
• Section 3513.14 - Primary Election Ballot Form.
  Except in elections for which the board of elections has received no valid declarations of intent to be a write-in candidate under section 3513.041...
• Section 3513.15 - Rotating Names Of Candidates On Ballot.
  The names of the candidates in each group of two or more candidates seeking the same nomination or election at a primary election, except...
• Section 3513.151 - Arrangement Of Names Of Candidates For Delegate And Alternate To National Convention Of Political Party.
  (A) Candidates for delegate and alternate to the national convention of a political party shall be represented on the ballot, or their names shall...
• Section 3513.16 - Designation Of Term For Judge Of Court Of Common Pleas On Primary Ballot.
  When two or more judges of the court of common pleas are to be elected in a county at any one election, the name...
• Section 3513.17 - Death Of Candidate Before Primary Election.
  If a person who has filed a declaration of candidacy, whose candidacy is to be submitted at a primary election to the electors of...
• Section 3513.18 - Primary Election Pollbooks.
  Party primaries shall be held at the same place and time, but there shall be separate pollbooks and tally sheets provided at each polling...
• Section 3513.19 - Challenges At Primary Elections.
  (A) It is the duty of any precinct election official, whenever any such official doubts that a person attempting to vote at a primary...
• Section 3513.191 - Disqualification Of Candidate For Party Primary.
  (A) No person shall be a candidate for nomination or election at a party primary if the person voted as a member of a...
• Section 3513.192 - Forfeiting Nomination.
  Any candidate nominated at a party primary election who votes in that primary election as a member of a political party different from the...
• Section 3513.20 - Effect Of Challenge To Voter At Primary.
  Before any challenged person shall be allowed to vote at a primary election , the person shall make a statement, under penalty of election...
• Section 3513.21 - Counting And Return Of Ballots.
  At the close of the polls in a primary election, the precinct election officials shall proceed without delay to canvass the vote, sign and...
• Section 3513.22 - Canvass And Certification Of Votes.
  (A) Not earlier than the eleventh day or later than the fifteenth day after a primary election, the board of elections shall begin to...
• Section 3513.23 - Write-in Votes.
  (A) If an elector voting at a primary election writes in a blank space provided for that purpose on the ballot of one political...
• Section 3513.24 - Canvass Of Votes For Members Of Party Committees.
  When members of party committees are elected at a primary election, the returns shall be made and canvassed in the same manner as for...
• Section 3513.25 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1954
• Section 3513.251 - Nomination For Officers Of Municipal Corporation.
  Nominations of candidates for election as officers of a municipal corporation having a population of less than two thousand as ascertained by the next...
• Section 3513.252 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-16-1991
• Section 3513.253 - Nomination For Officers Of Township.
  Nominations of candidates for election as officers of a township shall be made only by nominating petitions, unless a majority of the electors of...
• Section 3513.254 - Nomination For Members Of Board Of Education.
  (A) The name of each candidate for member of a city, local, or exempted village board of education shall appear on the nonpartisan ballot....
• Section 3513.255 - Petitions For Member Of Governing Board Of Educational Service Center.
  This section is subject to section 3513.256 of the Revised Code. The name of each candidate for election as a member of a governing...
• Section 3513.256 - Procedures For A Nonpartisan Primary Election.
  (A) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, for the purpose of nominating candidates for a position as a member of...
• Section 3513.257 - Independent Candidates Statements Of Candidacy And Nominating Petitions.
  Each person desiring to become an independent candidate for an office for which candidates may be nominated at a primary election, except persons desiring...
• Section 3513.258 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-23-1972
• Section 3513.259 - Nomination For Member Of The State Board Of Education.
  Nominations of candidates for the office of member of the state board of education shall be made only by nominating petition. The nominating petition...
• Section 3513.26 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1954
• Section 3513.261 - Nominating Petition Form And Fee.
  A nominating petition may consist of one or more separate petition papers, each of which shall be substantially in the form prescribed in this...
• Section 3513.262 - Filing Deadline For Nominating Petitions.
  The nominating petitions of all candidates required to be filed before four p.m. of the day before the day of the primary election immediately...
• Section 3513.263 - Processing Nominating Petitions.
  The nominating petitions of all candidates required to be filed before four p.m. of the ninetieth day before the day of the general election,...
• Section 3513.27 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1954
• Section 3513.271 - Name Change Within Five Years Immediately Preceding Filing Of Statement Of Candidacy.
  If any person desiring to become a candidate for public office has had a change of name within five years immediately preceding the filing...
• Section 3513.28 - Designation Of Term.
  Each independent candidate for election to the office of judge of the supreme court, court of appeals, court of common pleas, probate court, and...
• Section 3513.29 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1954
• Section 3513.291 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1964
• Section 3513.30 - Death Or Withdrawal Of Candidate Before Primary Election.
  (A) (1) If only one valid declaration of candidacy is filed for nomination as a candidate of a political party for an office and...
• Section 3513.301 - Special Election Of Party Candidate For Congress.
  (A) Notwithstanding section 3513.30 of the Revised Code, if only one person has filed a valid declaration of candidacy for nomination as the candidate...
• Section 3513.31 - Withdrawal, Disqualification, Or Death Of Candidate Prior To General Election.
  (A) If a person nominated in a primary election as a candidate for election at the next general election, whose candidacy is to be...
• Section 3513.311 - Withdrawal, Disqualification, Or Death Of Governor Or Lieutenant Governor Candidate Prior To General Election.
  (A) If a candidate for lieutenant governor dies, withdraws, or is disqualified as a candidate prior to the seventieth day before the day of...
• Section 3513.312 - Withdrawal, Disqualification, Or Death Of Congress Candidate Prior To General Election.
  (A) Notwithstanding section 3513.31 of the Revised Code, if a person nominated in a primary election or nominated by petition under section 3517.012 of...
• Section 3513.32 - Primary Preceding Special Election.
  When a special election is found necessary to fill a vacancy, the date of the primary election shall be fixed at the same time...
• Section 3513.33 - Notice Of Prohibited Campaign Practices.
  At the time a person files a declaration of candidacy, nominating petition, or declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate, the secretary of...

Last modified: October 10, 2016