California Elections Code CHAPTER 3 - Election of County Councils

• Section 7911.
  Members of county councils shall be elected from one or more multimember districts. Multimember districts shall conform to the county boundaries or recognized jurisdictional boundaries...
• Section 7912.
  The Secretary of State, no later than the 175th day before the presidential preference primary election, shall compute the number of members of a county...
• Section 7913.
  The elections official, no later than the 172nd day before the presidential preference primary election, shall compute the number of members of a county council...
• Section 7914.
  In each county, the name of each candidate for member of a county council shall appear on the ballot only if she or he is...
• Section 7915.
  In counties where members of county councils are to be elected by district, a person seeking election as a member of a county council may...
• Section 7916.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a person may obtain and circulate nomination papers for both nomination to a public office and for election...
• Section 7917.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the number of sponsors that shall be required of a person to be a candidate for member of...
• Section 7918.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, each sponsor is entitled to sponsor as many candidates as there are seats in the county council election...
• Section 7919.
  The elections official of each county shall include the office of member of county council and the candidates for the office in a place and...
• Section 7920.
  The order of appearance of the names of the candidates for member of county council on the ballot shall be determined by a public drawing...
• Section 7921.
  The office of member of county council shall be placed on the presidential preference primary ballot under the heading “Party County Council” in the place...
• Section 7922.
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, the votes cast for each candidate for member of county council shall be included in the canvass and...
• Section 7923.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a write-in candidate for member of county council shall not be declared elected unless the write-in candidate has...

Last modified: October 22, 2018