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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Election Code § 172.004: RUNOFF PRIMARY.

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  1. ELECTION CODE
  2. TITLE 10. POLITICAL PARTIES
  3. SUBTITLE B. PARTIES NOMINATING BY PRIMARY ELECTION
  4. CHAPTER 172. PRIMARY ELECTIONS
  5. SUBCHAPTER A. NOMINATING BY PRIMARY ELECTION GENERALLY

(a) If no candidate for nomination to a particular office receives the vote required for nomination in the general primary election, a runoff primary election shall be held to determine the nomination.

(b) The candidates in a runoff for a nomination shall be determined and a tie vote in a runoff resolved as provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 2, for a runoff for an election to office.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.

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