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SECTION 6-1. NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF MAYOR AND COUNCILMEMBERS, NONPARTISAN ELECTIONS.
   Candidates for Councilmember shall be nominated by wards, and Councilmembers shall be elected by wards. Candidates for Mayor shall be nominated at large, and the Mayor shall be elected at large. Both the primary and general elections shall be nonpartisan, and no party designation or emblem shall be placed on the ballots.
SECTION 6-2. FILING FOR COUNCILMEMBER OR MAYOR–GENERAL.
   Any person filing for the office of Councilmember or Mayor shall file with the Secretary of the Oklahoma County Election Board a sworn statement of candidacy stating the following:
   (a)   his legal name as he desires it to appear on the ballot;
   (b)   the street address of his residence;
   (c)   the ward in which he resides;
   (d)   age;
   (e)   office for which he is filing as a candidate. No reference to party affiliation shall be placed on the filing statement. A person may not file for both the offices of Mayor and Councilmember for the same election.
SECTION 6-3. PRIMARY ELECTION: FILING FOR MAYOR.
   In every other odd-numbered year (once every four years), hereinafter called Mayor Election Year, any qualified person may have his name placed on the ballot for the primary election as a candidate for Mayor by filing as described in Section 6-2 hereof, during the period defined as three days beginning not more than twenty days from the date the resolution calling the election is required by law to be filed with the County Election Board. The filing dates shall be established by the Council and set forth in the resolution calling the election. Any incumbent Councilmember whose term does not expire in the current calendar year shall resign his Council position prior to filing for Mayor. In the event a Councilmember whose term is not expiring in the current calendar year files for Mayor without resigning his Council position, then his Council position shall become vacant immediately upon his filing for Mayor.
(Amended 10-14-03; Res. 1259 Amended and approved 12-12-06; Amended 4-5-16)
SECTION 6-4. PRIMARY ELECTION: FILING FOR COUNCILMEMBER.
   In every odd-numbered year (once every two years), hereinafter called Council Election Year, any qualified person may have his name placed on the ballot for the primary election for the expiring term of Councilmember by filing as described in Section 6-2 hereof during the period as defined as the three days beginning not more than twenty days from the date the resolution calling the election is required by law to be filed with the County Election Board. The filing dates shall be established by the Council and set forth in the resolution calling the election..
(Amended 10-14-03; Res. 1259 Amended and approved 12-12-06; Amended 4-5-16)
SECTION 6-5. PRIMARY ELECTION: TIME, WHEN NOT REQUIRED.
   A primary election shall be held in the City on the first Tuesday in February of every Council Election Year to nominate candidates for the one position on the Council from each ward for which the term is expiring. A primary election shall be held in the City on the first Tuesday of February of every Mayor Election Year to nominate candidates for Mayor. If no office has more than one candidate at the election, all the candidates shall be not only nominated, but also elected to the respective offices ipso facto; and no primary or general election shall be held. If not more than one person is a candidate for a particular office at the election, he shall be not only nominated, but also elected to that office ipso facto; and his name shall not appear on the primary or general election ballot. Every qualified elector shall be entitled to vote for one candidate for Councilmember from his ward and also to vote for one candidate for Mayor for the City at large.
(Amended 10-14-03; Res. 1259 Amended and approved 12-12-06; Amended 4-5-16)
Editors Note: See Code § 12.01 that sets the date for elections as the second Tuesday in February per Ordinance 1918, passed 10/4/16
SECTION 6-6. PRIMARY ELECTION: WHO NOMINATED OR ELECTED.
   The two (2) candidates for Councilmember from each ward and the two (2) candidates for Mayor for the City at large receiving the greatest number of votes for the office for which they filed shall be nominated; provided that if one of the candidates for such office receives a majority of all votes cast for all candidates for such office, he alone shall be not only nominated but also elected ipso facto, and his name shall not appear on the ballot for the general election.
SECTION 6-7. GENERAL ELECTION: TIME, WHO ELECTED, WHEN NOT REQUIRED.
   A general election shall be held in the City to elect a Mayor at large and one Councilmember from each ward on the first Tuesday in April in every Mayor Election Year, and a general election shall be held in the City on the first Tuesday in April in every Council Election Year to elect one Councilmember from each ward. Every qualified elector shall be entitled to vote for one candidate for Mayor for the City at large. The candidate for Councilmember from each ward receiving the greater number of votes for Councilmember, cast in his ward, and the candidate for Mayor receiving the greater number of votes for Mayor cast in the City at large, shall be elected. However, no general election shall be held if there is no office for which there are candidates remaining to be elected.
(Amended 10-14-03)
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