Candidate, electoral right defined
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Summary
A candidate is any person who has been nominated for an election. Electoral right means the choices to stand for election, not to stand, to withdraw as a candidate, and to vote or refrain from voting. These meanings apply whenever the Chapter refers to candidates or electoral rights.
Example
Priya is nominated as a municipal candidate but then decides she does not want to run and formally withdraws. Under these definitions Priya counts as a candidate while nominated and has the electoral right to withdraw and to vote or abstain at that election.
Bare Act
Enacted textFor the purposes of this Chapter,
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(a) “candidate” means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election;
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(b) “electoral right” means the right of a person to stand, or not to stand as, or to withdraw from being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at an election.
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