{"data":{"id":"us-nh/rsa-659-91-a","jurisdiction":"us-nh","citation":"RSA 659:91-a","heading":"Candidate of One Party.","body":"I. Any person who runs as a candidate on any party's state primary election ballot and who is not chosen as the candidate for that party for the elective office for which the person was a candidate shall not under any circumstances run as the nominee of a different party in the state general election.\nII. Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 655:37, if any candidate is disqualified from accepting the nomination of another party by means of write-in votes because the candidate is disqualified under the provisions of paragraph I, then the nomination shall be given to the candidate who received the highest number of write-in votes and who was not disqualified under the provisions of paragraph I, so long as he or she receives 35 write-in votes, or write-in votes equaling 10 percent or more of the total ballots cast for that party in the state primary election, whichever is the smaller.","path":["Title LXIII: ELECTIONS","Chapter 659: ELECTION PROCEDURE","Canvass and Declaration: State Primary Election"],"source_url":"https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/LXIII/659/659-91-a.htm","current_through":"2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T17:36:11Z","sha256":"8d6c791978723876d324915cf74513fb0a96899b4b8b4af89b656f0e7761706c","source_id":"us-nh","stale":false,"prev":"us-nh/rsa-659-91","next":"us-nh/rsa-659-92"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}