CHAPTER 6

CITY ELECTIONS

6.01    NOMINATING METHOD TO BE USED. All candidates for elective municipal offices shall be nominated under the provisions of Chapter 376 of the Code of Iowa.

(Code of Iowa, Sec. 376.3)

6.02    CANDIDACY. An eligible elector of the City may become a candidate for an elective City office by filing with the City Clerk a valid petition requesting that the elector’s name be placed on the ballot for that office. The petition must be filed not more than seventy-one (71) days or less than forty-seven (47) days before the date of the election and must be signed by eligible electors equal in number to at least two percent (2%) of those who voted to fill the same office at the last regular City election, but not less than ten (10) persons.

(Code of Iowa, Sec. 376.4)

6.03    PRIMARY ELECTION REQUIRED. An individual for whom a valid petition is filed becomes a candidate in the regular City election for the office for which the individual has filed, except that a primary election must be held for offices for which the number of individuals for whom valid petitions are filed is more than twice the number of positions to be filled.

(Code of Iowa, Sec. 376.6)

6.04    DATE OF PRIMARY. If a primary election is necessary, it shall be held on the Tuesday four (4) weeks before the date of the regular City election.

(Code of Iowa, Sec. 376.7)

6.05    QUALIFICATION. The names of those candidates who receive the highest number of votes for each office on the primary election ballot, to the extent of twice the number of unfilled positions, must be placed on the ballot for the regular City election as candidates for that office.

(Code of Iowa, Sec. 376.7)

6.06    CANDIDATES ELECTED. In a regular City election following a City primary, the candidates receiving the greatest number of votes cast for each office on the ballot are elected, to the extent necessary to fill the positions open.

(Code of Iowa, Sec. 376.8)