Texas Election Code Title 14, Chapter 232 - Contests For Office

SUBCHAPTER A TRIAL AND DISPOSITION OF CONTEST

• Texas Section 232.001 - Applicability Of Chapter
  This chapter applies to a contest of an election for nomination or election to a public office or an office of a political party. Acts...
• Texas Section 232.002 - Contestant
  Any candidate in an election may contest the election. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
• Texas Section 232.003 - Contestee: General Rule
  (a) If a contested election is for nomination or election to an office for which only one person is to be nominated or elected, the...
• Texas Section 232.004 - Substitute Contestee
  (a) A contestant may name as a substitute contestee the presiding officer of the final canvassing authority for the election if: (1) a deceased or...
• Texas Section 232.005 - Additional Contestee
  The district court may require or permit any one or more candidates in a contested election to be named as contestee or may permit the...
• Texas Section 232.006 - Venue
  (a) The venue of an election contest for a statewide office is in Travis County. (b) The venue of a contest for an office less...
• Texas Section 232.007 - Runoff Not Held Until Final Judgment
  (a) A runoff election for a contested office may not be held until the judgment in the contest becomes final. (b) This section does not...
• Texas Section 232.008 - Filing Period For Petition
  (a) A contestant may not file the petition in an election contest earlier than the day after election day. (b) Except as provided by Subsection...
• Texas Section 232.009 - Notice Of Contest To Canvassing Authority
  (a) After an election contest is filed, the district clerk shall promptly deliver written notice of the filing to the presiding officer of the final...
• Texas Section 232.010 - Filing Period For Answer
  A contestee in a contest of a general or special election must file an answer to the contestant's petition not later than 10 a.m. of...
• Texas Section 232.011 - Return Of Unserved Citation
  The citation issued in an election contest must direct the officer receiving the citation to return it unserved if it is not served within 20...
• Texas Section 232.012 - Accelerated Procedures For Trial Of Certain Contests
  (a) This section applies only to the contest of an election described by Section 232.008(c). (b) When the contestant's petition is filed, the district clerk...
• Texas Section 232.013 - Rescheduling Runoff For Contested Race
  (a) If the final judgment in an election contest necessitates a runoff election in the contested race, the district judge shall set the date for...
• Texas Section 232.014 - Accelerated Appeal In Primary Contest
  (a) This section applies only to the contest of a primary election. (b) To be timely, an appellant's bond, affidavit, or cash deposit for costs...
• Texas Section 232.015 - Acceleration Of Appeal By Court In Contest Of General Or Special Election
  (a) The trial or appellate court may accelerate the appeal in a contest of a general or special election in a manner consistent with the...

SUBCHAPTER B COURT-ORDERED ELECTION FOLLOWING JUDGMENT OF VOID ELECTION

• Texas Section 232.016 - Appeal Suspends Execution Of Judgment
  The perfecting of an appeal in an election contest suspends the execution of the district court's judgment pending the disposition of the appeal without the...
• Texas Section 232.041 - New Election Ordered If Contested Election Void
  In an election contest in which the contested election is declared void, the court shall include in its judgment an order directing the appropriate authority...
• Texas Section 232.042 - Candidates In New Election
  Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, the candidates in a new election ordered by a court in an election contest are the same candidates...
• Texas Section 232.043 - Write-in Votes In New Election
  A write-in vote in a new election ordered by a court in an election contest may not be counted unless write-in votes were received by...
• Texas Section 232.044 - Withdrawal In New Election
  The provisions of this code governing withdrawal of candidates in the contested election apply to the new election ordered by a court in an election...
• Texas Section 232.045 - Death Or Ineligibility Of Candidate In New Election
  (a) If a candidate in a new election ordered by a court in an election contest dies or is declared ineligible before the date on...
• Texas Section 232.046 - Replacement Party Candidates In New Election: General Election For State And County Officers
  (a) If a candidate who was the nominee of a political party in a new election ordered by a court in an election contest in...
• Texas Section 232.047 - Replacement Of Partisan Nominee In City Election
  (a) If a candidate who is a nominee of a political organization in a new election ordered by a court in an election contest involving...
• Texas Section 232.048 - Runoff Following New Election
  (a) If no candidate receives a majority vote in a new election ordered by a court in the contest of an election in which a...
• Texas Section 232.049 - Second Runoff Following Contest Of Runoff
  If in a new election ordered by a court in a contest of a runoff election there are more than two candidates and no candidate...
• Texas Section 232.050 - Ballot Form And Order Of Names On Ballot
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, the provisions of this code regulating ballot form and preparation apply to the ballot for a new...

Last modified: September 28, 2016