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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86406</law_id><section_number>24.2-535</section_number><catch_line>Vote required to nominate</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="4">Conduct of Primaries</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any <span class="dictionary">candidate</span> for <span class="dictionary">party</span> nomination to any office who receives a plurality of the votes cast by his <span class="dictionary">party</span> shall be the nominee of his <span class="dictionary">party</span> for that office and his name shall be printed on the official ballots used in the <span class="dictionary">election</span> for which the <span class="dictionary">primary</span> was held.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 24-359; 1952, c. 4; 1964, c. 616; 1970, c. 462, &#xA7; 24.1-179; 1993, c. 641.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
