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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62614</law_id><section_number>24.2-504</section_number><catch_line>Persons entitled to have name printed on ballot</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>24.2-313</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="24.2">Elections</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="5">Candidates for Office</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Qualifications and Requirements of All Candidates</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Only a person fulfilling all the requirements of a <span class="dictionary">candidate</span> shall have his name printed on the ballot for the election. No person shall have his name printed on the ballot for more than one office at any one election. However, a <span class="dictionary">candidate</span> for federal or statewide office, or a <span class="dictionary">candidate</span> for an office being filled in a <span class="dictionary">special election</span>, may have his name printed on the ballot for two offices at an election.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 24-132; 1970, c. 462, &#xA7; 24.1-167; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 226; 1973, c. 30; 1975, c. 515; 1976, c. 616; 1977, c. 490; 1978, c. 778; 1980, c. 639; 1982, c. 650; 1984, c. 480; 1987, Sp. Sess., c. 1; 1988, c. 469; 1990, cc. 476, 865; 1991, c. 137; 1993, c. 641; 2000, cc. 513, 552; 2004, c. 881.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
