Offices for which candidates are chosen in primary elections
Known as the Election Code
The act spans §§ 2–2 (475 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Green Party of Tennessee v. Hargett (2012)
Most recently applied in 7 F. Supp. 3d 772 - Green Party of Tennessee v. Hargett (March 2014)
Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; T.C.A., § 2-1314; Acts 1995, ch. 305, § 60; 2012, ch. 955, § 5.
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.
Statewide political parties shall nominate their candidates for the following offices by vote of the members of the party in primary elections at the regular August election:
(1) Governor;
(2) Members of the general assembly;
(3) United States senator; and
(4) Members of the United States house of representatives.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.