Section 11-44-42 Elections for office of commissioner - Holding of runoff election. - Alabama Statutes

Section 11-44-42

Elections for office of commissioner - Holding of runoff election.

In case no one of such candidates shall receive a majority of all such votes cast for the office for which he is a candidate, another election shall be held on the same day of the following week for said office, at which the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes at the initial election for said office shall be voted for. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes at such final election shall be declared elected.

(Acts 1911, No. 504, p. 591; Code 1923, §2370; Code 1940, T. 37, §67.)