North Carolina General Statutes 163-292. Determination of election results in cities using the plurality method
In conducting nonpartisan elections and using the plurality method, elections shall be determined in accordance with the following rules:
(1) When more than one person is seeking election to a single office, the candidate who receives the highest number of votes shall be declared elected.
(2) When more persons are seeking election to two or more offices (constituting a group) than there are offices to be filled, those candidates receiving the highest number of votes, equal in number to the number of offices to be filled, shall be declared elected.
(3) If two or more candidates receiving the highest number of votes each receive the same number of votes, the board of elections shall determine the winner by lot. ?(1971, c. 835, s. 1; 2017-6, s. 3; 2018-146, s. 3.1(a), (b).)
Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 163-292
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3