163-292. Determination of election results in cities using the plurality method.
In conducting nonpartisan elections and using the plurality method, elections shall be determined in accordance with the following rules:
(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.
(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.
(3) If two or more candidates receiving the highest number of votes each receive the same number of votes, the board of elections shall determine the winner by lot. (1971, c. 835, s. 1; 2017-6, s. 3; 2018-146, s. 3.1(a), (b).)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 163 - Elections and Election Laws
Article 24 - Conduct of Municipal Elections.
§ 163-291 - Partisan primaries and elections.
§ 163-292 - Determination of election results in cities using the plurality method.
§ 163-294 - Determination of election results in cities using nonpartisan primaries.
§ 163-294.1 - Death of candidates or elected officers.
§ 163-294.2 - Notice of candidacy and filing fee in nonpartisan municipal elections.
§ 163-294.3 - Sole candidates to be voted upon in nonpartisan municipal elections.
§ 163-294.4 - Failure of candidates to file; death of a candidate before election.
§ 163-295 - Municipal and special district elections; application of this Chapter 163.
§ 163-296 - Nomination by petition.
§ 163-297 - Structure at voting place; marking off limits of voting place.
§ 163-298 - Municipal primaries and elections.
§ 163-299 - Ballots; municipal primaries and elections.
§ 163-300 - Disposition of duplicate abstracts in municipal elections.
§ 163-301 - Chairman of election board to furnish certificate of elections.