Minn. Stat. » CHAPTER 204B. ELECTION ADMINISTRATION; GENERAL PROVISIONS
Minnesota Statutes

Minn. Stat. § 204B.04 (2026)

Candidacy; Prohibitions

✓ current as of May 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section MN-REVrevisor.mn.gov (official) Justiaon Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

Subdivision 1.Major party candidates.

No individual shall be named on any ballot as the candidate of more than one major political party. No individual who has been certified by a canvassing board as the nominee of any major political party shall be named on any ballot as the candidate of any other major political party at the next ensuing general election.

Subd. 2.Candidates seeking nomination by primary.

No individual who seeks nomination for any partisan or nonpartisan office at a primary shall be nominated for the same office by nominating petition.

Subd. 2a.

[Expired]

Subd. 3.Nomination for nonpartisan office.

No individual shall be nominated by nominating petition for any nonpartisan office.

Subd. 4.Prohibition on multiple candidacy.

A candidate who files an affidavit of candidacy for an office to be elected at the general election may not subsequently file another affidavit of candidacy for any other office to be elected on the date of that general election, unless the candidate withdraws the initial affidavit pursuant to section 204B.12. The provisions in section 645.21 do not apply to this subdivision.

Subd. 5.Ballots; candidates who file by nominating petition.

Candidates who were filed as a team by nominating petition under section 204B.07, subdivision 2, shall not appear on the ballot as minor party or independent candidates if either candidate is certified as a major party candidate for president or vice president pursuant to section 208.03.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1996–2006 · leading case: In Re Nomination Papers of Nader, 858 A.2d 1167 (Pa. 2004).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
In Re Nomination Papers of Nader, 858 A.2d 1167 (Pa. 2004). · cites it 2× “" Minn.Stat. § 204B.04, subd. 2. Further, the statute required that a candidate have "no other affidavit on file as a candidate for any office at the same primary or next ensuing general election.”
Twin Cities Area New Party v. McKenna, 73 F.3d 196 (8th Cir. 1996). “We do not reach the constitutionality of Minn.Stat. § 204B.04 subd. 1, which states, “No individual shall be named on any ballot as the candidate of more than one major political party,” because it is not involved in this case.”
Idusogie v. Kiffmeyer, 721 N.W.2d 283 (Minn. 2006). · cites it 2× “Idusogie’s claim could be construed to assert that Minn.Stat. §§ 204B.04 and 204B.08 (2004) are unconstitutional because they infringe upon his equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by imposing a burden on him not also imposed on candidates seeking the…”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.