{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-5-15-61","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 5-15-61","heading":"Determination of election results under nonpartisan plurality method.","body":"In conducting nonpartisan elections and using the plurality method, election results shall be determined in accordance with the following rules:\n(1) When more than one person is seeking election to a single office, the candidate who receives the highest number of votes shall be declared elected.\n(2) When more persons are seeking election to two or more offices (constituting a group) than there are offices to be filled, those candidates receiving the highest number of votes, equal in number to the number of offices to be filled, shall be declared elected.","path":["Title 5 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS","CHAPTER 15 Nominations and Elections for Municipal Offices"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t05c015.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:22:59Z","sha256":"4e013ee76cc3b1fd84278150622e6860e2b6223182d6c5501873e9a40eabb576","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-5-15-60","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-5-15-62"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}