Connecticut General Statutes 9-417 – No-contest nominations; municipal office and town committee members
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, if within the time specified in section 9-405, no candidacy for nomination by a political party to a municipal office has been filed by or on behalf of a person other than a party-endorsed candidate or, in the case of election as member of the town committee of such party, by persons other than party-endorsed candidates numbering at least twenty-five per cent of the number of town committee members to be elected by such party either in the municipality or in the political subdivision, as the case may be, in conformity with the provisions of sections 9-405 to 9-412, inclusive, and 9-414, no primary shall be held by such party for such office or for town committee members, as the case may be, and the party-endorsed candidate or candidates for such office shall be deemed to have been lawfully chosen as the nominee or nominees of such party to such office, or, as the case may be, and the party-endorsed candidates for election as members of the town committee shall be deemed to have been lawfully elected to such positions at the times specified in section 9-392.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 9-417
- Election: means any electors' meeting at which the electors choose public officials by use of voting tabulators or by paper ballots as provided in section 9-272. See Connecticut General Statutes 9-1
- Municipal office: means an elective office for which only the electors of a single town, city, borough, or political subdivision, as defined in subdivision (10) of this section, may vote, including the office of justice of the peace. See Connecticut General Statutes 9-372
- Municipality: means any city, borough or town within the state. See Connecticut General Statutes 9-1
- Party-endorsed candidate: means (A) in the case of a candidate for state or district office, a person endorsed by the convention of a political party as a candidate in a primary to be held by such party, and (B) in the case of a candidate for municipal office or for member of a town committee, a person endorsed by the town committee, caucus or convention, as the case may be, of a political party as a candidate in a primary to be held by such party. See Connecticut General Statutes 9-372
- Political subdivision: means any voting district or combination of voting districts constituting a part of a municipality. See Connecticut General Statutes 9-372
- Population: means the population according to the last-completed United States census. See Connecticut General Statutes 9-1
- Primary: means a meeting of the enrolled members of a political party and, when applicable under section 9-431, unaffiliated electors, held during consecutive hours at which such members or electors may, without assembling at the same hour, vote by secret ballot for candidates for nomination to office or for town committee members. See Connecticut General Statutes 9-372
- Registrar: means the registrar of voters in a municipality who is enrolled with the political party holding a primary and, in each municipality where there are different registrars for different voting districts, means the registrar so enrolled in the voting district in which, at the last-preceding regular election, the presiding officer for the purpose of declaring the result of the vote of the whole municipality was moderator. See Connecticut General Statutes 9-372
(b) In the case of any municipality having a population of one hundred thousand or more and in which a party by its rules provides, pursuant to subsection (g) of section 9-390, that the town committee members of such party be chosen at direct primaries, if, by four o’clock p.m. on the forty-ninth day preceding the first Tuesday in March in even-numbered years, the number of persons who have requested petition forms for candidacies for election as members of such town committee and filed a signed statement consenting to be a candidate for such position, in accordance with subsection (c) of section 9-409, is equal to or less than the number of town committee members to be elected by such party, but at least twenty-five per cent of such number, in accordance with section 9-411, then (1) the requirements regarding such persons’ filing of candidacies for election under section 9-405 and signed petitions under section 9-406 shall not apply, (2) the requirements regarding the registrar‘s receipt of petition pages and certification of signatures on such pages under section 9-412 shall not apply, and (3) no primary shall be held by such party for town committee members and such persons shall be deemed to have lawfully been elected to such positions at the times specified in section 9-392. As used in this subsection, “population” means the estimated number of people according to the most recent version of the State Register and Manual prepared pursuant to section 3-90.