Indiana Code
Ind. Code § 3-8-2-2 (2025)
Necessity of declaration of candidacy for nomination at primary election
✓ 2025 Indiana Code: the 2026 session is not included
Sec. 2. A person who desires to be nominated at a primary election as a candidate of a political party subject to this chapter for a federal, state, legislative, or local office shall file a declaration of candidacy.
[Pre-1986 Recodification Citations: 3-1-9-1 part; 3-1-9-5(a) part.]
As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.4.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2014–2024 · leading case: Bowes v. Indiana Sec'y of State, 837 F.3d 813 (7th Cir. 2016).
Bowes v. Indiana Sec'y of State, 837 F.3d 813 (7th Cir. 2016). “3d at 915 (citing Ind. Code §§ 3-8-2-2 .5, 3-8-4-1, 3-8-4-10).”
Common Cause Indiana v. Indiana Sec'y of State, 60 F. Supp. 3d 982 (S.D. Ind. 2014). “Ind. Code § 3-8-2-2 .5. A person has several months to file this declaration.”
Indiana Green Party v. Diego Morales, 113 F.4th 739 (7th Cir. 2024). “Ind. Code §§ 3-8-2-2 .5, 3-8-7-30(a). 1 1 Indiana added this write-in option shortly after a federal district court held that Indiana’s ban on write-in voting violated the First and Four- teenth Amendments.”
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