§ 652.023 does not apply to:
(1) an incumbent governor if the secretary of state proclaims that, according to the secretary’s count of returns from the general election, the governor is reelected; or
(2) a vacancy that:
(A) first occurs after October 1 preceding the transition period and before the transition period begins;
(B) is caused by the death of the officeholder; and
(C) would not have occurred during the period described by Paragraph (A) by the expiration of the officeholder’s term of office.