Code of Virginia - Title 24.2 Elections - Chapter 5 Candidates For Office

24.2-500 Qualification of candidates
In order to qualify as a candidate for any office of the Commonwealth, or of its governmental units, a person must be qualified to vote ...

24.2-501 Statement of qualification as requirement of candidacy
It shall be a requirement of candidacy for any office of the Commonwealth, or of its governmental units, that a person must file a written ...

24.2-502 Statement of economic interests as requirement of candidacy
It shall be a requirement of candidacy that a written statement of economic interests shall be filed by (i) a candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, ...

24.2-503 Deadlines for filing required statements; extensions
The written statements of qualification and economic interests shall be filed by (i) primary candidates not later than the filing deadline for the primary, (ii) ...

24.2-503.1 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 2006, cc. 787 and 892, cl. 2. ...

24.2-504 Persons entitled to have name printed on ballot
Only a person fulfilling all the requirements of a candidate shall have his name printed on the ballot for the election. No person shall have ...

24.2-505 Declaration of candidacy required of independent candidates
A. Any person, other than a candidate for a party nomination or a party nominee, who intends to be a candidate for any office to ...

24.2-506 Petition of qualified voters required; number of signatures required; certain towns excepte...
The name of any candidate for any office, other than a party nominee, shall not be printed upon any official ballots provided for the election ...

24.2-507 Deadlines for filing declarations and petitions of candidacy
For any office, declarations of candidacy and the petitions therefor shall be filed according to the following schedule: 1. For a general election in November, ...

24.2-508 Powers of political parties in general
Each political party shall have the power to (i) make its own rules and regulations, (ii) call conventions to proclaim a platform, ratify a nomination, ...

24.2-509 Party to determine method of nominating its candidates for office; exceptions
A. The duly constituted authorities of the state political party shall have the right to determine the method by which a party nomination for a ...

24.2-510 Deadlines for parties to nominate by methods other than primary
For any office, nominations by political parties by methods other than a primary shall be made and completed in the manner prescribed by law according ...

24.2-511 Party chairman or official to certify candidates to State Board and secretary of electoral board; f...
A. The state, district, or other appropriate party chairman shall certify the name of any candidate who has been nominated by his party by a ...

24.2-512 Primaries to be conducted in accordance with article
A primary when held shall be conducted in all respects under the provisions of this article. All references in this chapter to primaries shall be ...

24.2-513 Provisions as to general elections applicable
All the provisions and requirements of the laws of this Commonwealth in relation to the holding of elections shall apply to all primaries insofar as ...

24.2-514 To what nominations this article applies
This article shall apply to the nomination of candidates for offices by a direct primary held on the regular dates established in § 24.2-515 for ...

24.2-515 Presidential year primaries
Primaries for the nomination of candidates for offices to be voted on at the general election date in November shall be held on the second ...

24.2-515.1 Schedule for primaries in the year 2001 and each tenth year thereafter
Primaries for the nomination of candidates for the offices listed in Section 4 of Article VII of the Constitution of Virginia to be voted on ...

24.2-516 Party to furnish names of chairmen and notify State Board of adoption of direct primary
Each political party within the Commonwealth shall furnish to the State Board the names and addresses of its state, county, and city party chairmen in ...

24.2-517 State Board to order election
The State Board shall order the holding of a primary election in any county, city, or other district of the Commonwealth in which it is ...

24.2-518 County and city treasurers to pay primary expenses; certain uses of machinery by party
The treasurer of the county or city in which the elections are held shall pay the costs of primary elections. A political party may hold ...

24.2-519 Qualification of primary candidates
In order to qualify as a candidate at any primary, a person must be legally qualified to hold the office for which he is a ...

24.2-520 Declaration of candidacy required
A candidate for nomination by primary for any office shall be required to file a written declaration of candidacy on a form prescribed by the ...

24.2-521 Petition required to accompany declaration; number of signatures required
A candidate for nomination by primary for any office shall be required to file with his declaration of candidacy a petition for his name to ...

24.2-522 When and to whom filings to be made
A. Declarations of candidacy, petitions, and receipts indicating the payment of filing fees shall be filed not earlier than noon of the seventy-seventh day and ...

24.2-523 Candidates to pay fee before filing
Every candidate for nomination for any office at any primary shall, before he files his declaration of candidacy, pay a fee equal to two percent ...

24.2-524 To whom fees paid; refund of fees
A. Candidates for United States Senators, for representatives in Congress, and for the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General shall pay the primary ...

24.2-525 Persons entitled to have name printed on ballot
Only a person meeting all the qualifications and fulfilling all the requirements of a candidate, and who has complied with the rules and regulations of ...

24.2-526 Primary not to be held when less than two candidates declare
Whenever within the time prescribed by this article there is only one declaration of candidacy in a political party for the nomination for any office, ...

24.2-527 Chairman or official to furnish State Board and local electoral boards with names of candidate...
A. It shall be the duty of the chairman or chairmen of the several committees of the respective parties to furnish the name of any ...

24.2-528 No primary candidate to be nominated by convention
No party which has adopted the method of making a nomination for an office by primary pursuant to § 24.2-509 shall nominate by a convention ...

24.2-529 Primary ballots
The primary ballots for the several parties taking part in a primary shall be composed, arranged, printed, delivered, and provided in the same manner as ...

24.2-530 Who may vote in primary
All persons qualified to vote, pursuant to §§ 24.2-400 through 24.2-403, may vote at the primary. No person shall vote for the candidates of more ...

24.2-531 Pollbooks and ballot containers
There shall be pollbooks in the form set forth in § 24.2-611 and a separate ballot container provided for each party taking part in any ...

24.2-532 Abstracts of votes; law-enforcement officer to obtain returns not forwarded
As soon as the electoral board shall determine the persons who have received the highest number of votes for nomination to any such office, the ...

24.2-533 Party chairman entitled to copy pollbook at own expense
Any political party chairman entitled to receive the certified copies of the primary results under § 24.2-532, or the state chairman of a political party ...

24.2-534 Returns tabulated by State Board; when nominee declared
As soon as possible after receipt of the certified abstract and not later than fourteen days after the day of the election, the State Board ...

24.2-535 Vote required to nominate
Any candidate for party nomination to any office who receives a plurality of the votes cast by his party shall be the nominee of his ...

24.2-536 Procedure when a vacancy in office occurs less than sixty days before primary date
Whenever, by reason of the death, resignation, or removal of the incumbent, a vacancy in any office occurs less than sixty but more than thirty ...

24.2-537 Procedure when nominee by default dies or withdraws or nomination is set aside prior to primar...
A. If any person who would have been nominated as the candidate of a political party for any office in any general election by reason ...

24.2-538 Procedure when opposed candidate for nomination dies prior to primary
If any person who is a candidate for nomination by a political party at a primary election, and who, along with one or more other ...

24.2-539 Party may nominate when nominee dies, withdraws, or nomination is set aside; duty of party chairma...
Should the nominee of any party die, withdraw, or have his nomination set aside for any reason, the party may nominate to fill the vacancy ...

24.2-540 Other parties may also nominate; independent candidates
Any other political party may also nominate and file the required notice of a new candidate pursuant to § 24.2-539 if the candidate who died, ...

24.2-541 Printing of names on ballot
In the case (i) of a candidate who has died if the notice is filed with the proper official at least 25 days before the ...

24.2-542 State Board to be furnished names of electors selected by political parties; oaths of elector...
In elections for President and Vice President of the United States, the appropriate chairman or secretary of each political party shall furnish to the State ...

24.2-542.1 State Board to be furnished names of electors selected by political parties; certain national conve...
Notwithstanding the provisions of § 24.2-542, (i) the state political party chairman of a political party whose national convention has been scheduled to be held ...

24.2-543 How other groups may submit names of electors; oaths of electors
A group of qualified voters, not constituting a political party as defined in § 24.2-101, may have the names of electors selected by them, including ...

24.2-544 Time presidential primaries to be held and completion of duties by officers of election; age qualif...
A. Primaries for the nomination of candidates for the office of President of the United States to be voted on at the November 2004 general ...

24.2-545 Presidential primary
A. The duly constituted authorities of the state political party shall have the right to determine the method by which the state party will select ...