Supreme Court Rules

First Adopted: February 01, 1972

Most Recently Effective: January 01, 2024

Rule 10 | Rules Governing the Missouri Bar and the Judiciary | Nonpartisan Judicial Commissions and Judicial Performance Review

10.16 | Run-Off Election – Names on Ballots

The candidates entitled to have their names printed on the ballots at a run-off election, and no others, shall be as follows: 

(1) if the first election resulted in a tie for first place between two or more candidates, then said two or more candidates; or 

(2) the two candidates who received, respectively, the highest and next highest number of votes at said election; or 

(3) if one candidate stood in first place and two or more other candidates tied for second, then all of those who stood in first and second place. 

The names of those candidates who give written notice to the clerk of their withdrawal as candidates before the printing of the ballots shall not be printed on the ballots for a run-off election. No blank line for the writing in of a name shall appear on such ballot.


(Adopted February 1, 1972, effective September 1, 1972. Amended May 23, 2023, effective January 1, 2024.)
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