(a) Commencing with the year 1992, the primary city election shall be held on the same date in each election year as the California statewide direct primary election, and the general city election shall be held on the same date as the California statewide general election for that year. All other elections shall be known as special elections.
To implement this provision, primary and general elections for council districts one, three, five and seven shall be held in the year 1994, and the primary and general elections for council districts two, four, six and eight, and for the office of mayor, shall be held in the year 1992.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this charter, the term of office of each person who is, on the effective date of this amendment, an incumbent of the council seat for district two, four, six or eight, or of the office of Mayor, and whose term of office would otherwise normally expire in 1991, shall be extended until a successor is elected in 1992 and has been seated.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this charter, the term of office of each person who is, on the effective date of this amendment, an incumbent of the council seat for district one, three, five or seven, and whose term of office would otherwise normally expire in 1993, shall be extended until a successor is elected in 1994 and has been seated. (Adopted October 10, 1989)
(b) At the primary election, there shall be chosen by the voters of each council district with a council member whose term expires at the end of or during the same year as the election, two candidates for the office of council member from that district. When the term of office of mayor expires at the end of or during the same year as the election, there shall be chosen by the voters of the entire city at the primary election two candidates to fill the office of mayor. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Charter to the contrary, in the event that any candidate for nomination to the office of council member or the mayor shall receive a majority of the votes cast for all the candidates for nomination for such seat or office at such primary election, the candidate so receiving such majority of all votes shall be deemed to be, and declared by the city council to be, elected to such office.
(c) At the general election, the voters of each council district in which a primary election was held shall select from among the two candidates chosen at the primary election in each district one candidate to succeed to the office of the council member whose term expires at the end of or during the same year as the election.