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.)