The name of no person shall be printed on the ballot in any general or special election in this state as a candidate for election to any office unless the person shall have been certified as a nominee selected pursuant to this subchapter.
Ark. Code Ann. § 7-7-101
Selection of nominees
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Allred v. McLoud (2000)
Most recently applied in Dan Whitfield v. John Thurston (July 2021)
Acts 1969, No. 465, Art. 1, § 5; 1971, No. 261, § 3; 1972 (1st Ex
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.