Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 153 - Nominations and Political Parties
Section 9-417. - No-contest nominations; municipal office and town committee members.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, if within the time specified in section 9-405, no candidacy for nomination by a political party to a municipal office has been filed by or on behalf of a person other than a party-endorsed candidate or, in the case of election as member of the town committee of such party, by persons other than party-endorsed candidates numbering at least twenty-five per cent of the number of town committee members to be elected by such party either in the municipality or in the political subdivision, as the case may be, in conformity with the provisions of sections 9-405 to 9-412, inclusive, and 9-414, no primary shall be held by such party for such office or for town committee members, as the case may be, and the party-endorsed candidate or candidates for such office shall be deemed to have been lawfully chosen as the nominee or nominees of such party to such office, or, as the case may be, and the party-endorsed candidates for election as members of the town committee shall be deemed to have been lawfully elected to such positions at the times specified in section 9-392.

(b) In the case of any municipality having a population of one hundred thousand or more and in which a party by its rules provides, pursuant to subsection (g) of section 9-390, that the town committee members of such party be chosen at direct primaries, if, by four o'clock p.m. on the forty-ninth day preceding the first Tuesday in March in even-numbered years, the number of persons who have requested petition forms for candidacies for election as members of such town committee and filed a signed statement consenting to be a candidate for such position, in accordance with subsection (c) of section 9-409, is equal to or less than the number of town committee members to be elected by such party, but at least twenty-five per cent of such number, in accordance with section 9-411, then (1) the requirements regarding such persons' filing of candidacies for election under section 9-405 and signed petitions under section 9-406 shall not apply, (2) the requirements regarding the registrar's receipt of petition pages and certification of signatures on such pages under section 9-412 shall not apply, and (3) no primary shall be held by such party for town committee members and such persons shall be deemed to have lawfully been elected to such positions at the times specified in section 9-392. As used in this subsection, “population” means the estimated number of people according to the most recent version of the State Register and Manual prepared pursuant to section 3-90.
(June, 1955, S. 588d; November, 1955, S. N68; 1957, P.A. 518, S. 15; 1958 Rev., S. 9-96; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 44; P.A. 79-616, S. 13, 24; P.A. 03-241, S. 35; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 126.)
History: 1963 act restated previous provisions; P.A. 79-616 changed reference from Sec. 9-399 to Sec. 9-400; P.A. 03-241 deleted provisions re convention delegate candidacies and substituted “sections 9-405 to 9-412, inclusive, and 9-414”, for “sections 9-400 to 9-414, inclusive,”, effective January 1, 2004, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re exception for certain municipality with population of 100,000 or more, effective June 23, 2021.

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