Posted on 05/04/2011 7:18:58 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
I seem to recall Sandoval (who is a former judge) implying that there were two methods used in NV for special elections, one with the parties selecting the candidates and one in which everyone ran on the same ballot. I assume that the jungle ballot was used for non-partisan races, which means that the party-selection method must have been used in partisan elections. I would think that there must have been at least one vacancy in the NV state legislature at some point in its 147 years as a state.
Vacancies in the state legislature are handled differently.
But does anyone have easy access to Congressional Quarterly’s Guide to US Elections? There were special elections for unexpired US Senate seats in Nevada in 1918, 1942, and 1954. Were they free-for-alls?
The 1954 special election to fill a U.S. Senate seat from NV saw Democrat Alan Bible defeat Republican Ernest N. Brown by 58.9% to 41.9%. http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/u/usa/congress/senate6.txt It appears that only two candidates were in the general-election ballot, so it had either regular primaries, or the candidates were selected by the parties, or they had a run-off. Given what little I know about special elections in NV, I assume that the parties selected the candidates.
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