If the result of such canvass discloses that such candidate, if he had lived, would have been nominated, such candidate shall be declared nominated.
10 ILCS 5/7-57
The death of any candidate prior to, or on, the date of the primary shall not affect the canvass of the ballots
Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.
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