§ 10702 Special Election Candidate Procedures

• •The chapter sets the rules for nominating and electing candidates in special elections for Congress, State Senate, or Assembly seats.
• •It only applies when there’s a vacancy; regular elections follow other rules.
• •If Chapter 3 (starting at § 10730) says something else, those rules win instead.

A State Senator moves away and leaves the seat empty. The political party has to pick a new candidate and then hold a special election to fill the spot.

The party follows the steps in this chapter to nominate someone, and voters go to the polls in a special election to pick the new senator, because the law sets the rules for that process.