TITLE secretary-of-state

Election Law Opinion

ARG-1(1998). Request from Mr. Donald G. Vandiver, First Assistant City Attorney, City of Lubbock, P. O. Box 2000, Lubbock, Texas 79457, regarding whether or not all single-member district races be unopposed in order to remove an at-large race from the ballot ("cancel the election") for purposes of section 2.051, Texas Election Code.

SUMMARY. If a proposition election is scheduled for the same election date, or, if any one or more scheduled at-large races are opposed and are to be placed on the ballot, all other offices scheduled for election that year, at-large or single-member district, must be placed on the ballot, regardless of the number of candidates who have filed. If there is no proposition, and all at-large races are unopposed, the unopposed at-large races may be cancelled and removed from the ballot, leaving any opposed single-member district race election(s) to be conducted as usual in the affected single-member district.

Clark Kent Ervin

Assistant Secretary of State

Office of the Secretary of State

Filed: April 17, 1998