§ 17-15-29 - Number of votes required to nominate or elect. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 17-15-29

   § 17-15-29  Number of votes required tonominate or elect. – In determining the nomination or election of a candidate at a primary election,the person receiving the largest number of votes, although less than a majorityof all the votes cast for the candidates for a particular office, shall bedeclared nominated or elected. Where there is more than one person to beelected to a particular office or place, those persons equaling that number ofofficers to be elected to the office or place receiving the largest number ofvotes, although less than a majority of all the votes cast for all thecandidates for the office or place, shall be declared nominated or elected, asthe case may be, unless otherwise provided by existing law.