In the event either of the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the first primary election shall determine not to enter the second primary election provided for in this chapter, the candidate, as soon as possible and not more than three days after holding of the first primary election, shall certify his or her declination to enter such second primary election to the chair of the state executive committee of his or her party, if the office is an office other than a county office, or to the chair of the county executive committee of his or her party if the office is a county office. Upon the receipt of such notification, the chair of such committee shall declare the other candidate the nominee of the party for such office and certify his or her name as such nominee to the Secretary of State or the judge of probate, as the case may require, and a second primary election for the nomination of a candidate for that particular office shall not be held.
Structure Code of Alabama
Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 17-13-1 - "Primary Election" Defined.
Section 17-13-3 - Time and Place for Holding Primary Elections.
Section 17-13-4 - Payment of Compensation of Officers and Other Expenses of Elections.
Section 17-13-6 - Only Qualified Candidates to Be Listed on Ballots.
Section 17-13-7.1 - Persons Entitled to Vote in Primary Runoff Elections
Section 17-13-8 - Ballots, Stationery, and Supplies; Pledge Printed on Ballot; Spoiling of Ballot.
Section 17-13-8.1 - Instant Runoff Primary Elections in Certain Situations.
Section 17-13-9 - Duty of Judge of Probate to Furnish and Deliver Election Supplies.
Section 17-13-10 - Ballots to Be Secret and Inviolate.
Section 17-13-11 - Watchers at Polls.
Section 17-13-12 - Returning Officers.
Section 17-13-13 - Counting of Votes; Results to Be Posted for Public Inspection.
Section 17-13-15 - When Voted Ballots Container and Records of Election Container May Be Opened.
Section 17-13-17 - Canvass, Tabulation, and Declaration of Results.
Section 17-13-19 - Procedure When One Candidate Declines to Enter Second Primary.
Section 17-13-20 - Determination of Majority of Votes Cast.
Section 17-13-22 - Certification of Nominees to Judge of Probate.
Section 17-13-23 - Filling of Vacancies in Nominations.
Section 17-13-24 - Voting More Than Once.
Section 17-13-25 - Changing or Altering Returns of Primary Elections.
Section 17-13-26 - Additional Duties of Sheriff, Chief of Police, Etc.