§ 376.9 — Runoff election

Iowa § 376.9

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title IX: LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• Ch. 376: CITY ELECTIONS

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1. Arunoffelectionmaybeheldonlyforpositionsunfilledbecauseoffailureofasufficient
number of candidates to receive a majority vote in the regular city election. When a council
haschosenarunoffelectioninlieuofaprimary, thecountyboardofsupervisorsshallpublicly
canvass the tally lists of the vote cast in the regular city election, following the procedures
prescribed in section 50.24. Candidates who do not receive a majority of the votes cast for
an office, but who receive the highest number of votes cast for that office in the regular city
election, to the extent of twice the number of unfilled positions, are candidates in the runoff
election.
2. a. Runoff elections shall be held four weeks after the date of the regular city election
and shall be conducted in the same manner as regular city elections, except that the county
board of supervisors required to canvass the vote of the runoff election pursuant to section
50.24 shall meet to canvass the vote on the Thursday following the runoff election.
b. For a city that is located in more than one county, the county board of supervisors
conducting the canvass under paragraph “a” shall transmit abstracts for the offices and
public measures of that city, along with individual tallies for each write-in candidate, to the
city’s controlling commissioner under section 47.2 within twenty-four hours of completing
the canvass. The county board of supervisors of the county of the controlling commissioner
shall canvass the abstracts received pursuant to this subsection on the first Monday or the
first Tuesday after the day of the runoff election and shall proceed as provided in section
50.24, subsection 4.
3. Candidates in the runoff election who receive the highest number of votes cast for each
office on the ballot are elected to the extent necessary to fill the positions open.

Legislative History

[C71, 73, §363.16; C75, 77, 79, 81, §376.9]