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Such notice or complaint shall be filed within 10 days following the date of the entry of the order of the recount court pursuant to subsection F of \u00a7 24.2-802.2.\n\t\tIn the case of a contest pursuant to \u00a7 24.2-803 or 24.2-804, the times for filing the answer, petition, and reply and for taking depositions and affidavits shall be set by the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the appropriate house. The Committee may consider the contestant’s and contestee’s recommendations for the procedural schedule.\n\t\tThis section shall not be applicable to a contest of an election for the President and Vice President of the United States.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":281361,"text":"A candidate in a primary or an election to office, who was originally declared a winner and subsequently loses as the result of a recount, may file either (i) notice of his intent to contest the result in accordance with \u00a7 24.2-803 or 24.2-804 or (ii) a written complaint pursuant to \u00a7 24.2-805 or 24.2-806. 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This law was first created in 1988. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 714 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1988 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 4 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1993, chapter 641; in 2001, chapters 639<\/a> and 641<\/a>; in 2003, chapter 268<\/a>; in 2020, chapter 886<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":62925,"section_number":"24.2-802.2","catch_line":"General recount procedures","order_by":null,"url":"\/24.2-802.2\/"},{"id":68390,"section_number":"24.2-803","catch_line":"Contest of election to General Assembly","order_by":null,"url":"\/24.2-803\/"},{"id":64477,"section_number":"24.2-804","catch_line":"Contest of elections of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General","order_by":null,"url":"\/24.2-804\/"},{"id":80204,"section_number":"24.2-805","catch_line":"Contest of elections of electors for President and Vice President or primaries for United States Senate or statewide office","order_by":null,"url":"\/24.2-805\/"},{"id":56547,"section_number":"24.2-806","catch_line":"Contest of other primaries and elections","order_by":null,"url":"\/24.2-806\/"}],"permalink":{"id":189031,"object_type":"law","relational_id":78511,"identifier":"24.2-814","token":"24.2\/8\/2\/24.2-814","url":"\/24.2-814\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/24.2-814\/","token":"24.2\/8\/2\/24.2-814","dublin_core":{"Title":"Contest following recount","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 24.2-814","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A candidate<\/span> in a primary<\/span> or an election<\/span> to office, who was originally declared a winner and subsequently loses as the result of a recount, may file either (i) notice of his intent<\/span> to contest the result in accordance with \u00a7 24.2-803<\/a> or 24.2-804<\/a> or (ii) a written complaint pursuant to \u00a7 24.2-805<\/a> or 24.2-806<\/a>. Such notice or complaint shall be filed within 10 days following the date of the entry of the order<\/span> of the recount court<\/span> pursuant to subsection F of \u00a7 24.2-802.2<\/a>.\n\t\tIn the case of a contest pursuant to \u00a7 24.2-803<\/a> or 24.2-804<\/a>, the times for filing the answer, petition<\/span>, and reply and for taking depositions<\/span> and affidavits<\/span> shall be set by the Committee on Privileges<\/span> and Elections<\/span> of the appropriate house. The Committee may consider the contestant’s and contestee’s recommendations for the procedural schedule.\n\t\tThis section shall not be applicable to a contest of an election<\/span> for the President and Vice President of the United States.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCONTEST FOLLOWING RECOUNT (\u00a7 24.2-814)\n\nA candidate in a primary or an election to office, who was originally declared a\nwinner and subsequently loses as the result of a recount, may file either (i)\nnotice of his intent to contest the result in accordance with \u00a7 24.2-803 or\n24.2-804 or (ii) a written complaint pursuant to \u00a7 24.2-805 or 24.2-806. Such\nnotice or complaint shall be filed within 10 days following the date of the\nentry of the order of the recount court pursuant to subsection F of \u00a7\n24.2-802.2.\n\t\tIn the case of a contest pursuant to \u00a7 24.2-803 or 24.2-804, the times for\nfiling the answer, petition, and reply and for taking depositions and affidavits\nshall be set by the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the appropriate\nhouse. The Committee may consider the contestant’s and contestee’s\nrecommendations for the procedural schedule.\n\t\tThis section shall not be applicable to a contest of an election for the\nPresident and Vice President of the United States.\n\nHISTORY: 1988, c. 714, \u00a7 24.1-241.1; 1993, c. 641; 2001, cc. 639, 641; 2003, c.\n268; 2020, c. 886.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}