Independent candidate definition

Independent candidate means any candidate who claims not to be affiliated with a political party, and whose name has been certified on the office-type ballot at a general or special election through the filing of a statement of candidacy and nominating petition, as prescribed in section 3513.257 of the Revised Code.

Independent candidate means a South African citizen contesting an election and who is not nominated on a list of a party;

Independent candidate means a candidate who is registered as an independent or with no party preference or who is registered with a political party that is not eligible for recognition on the ballot.

Examples of Independent candidate in a sentence

• The MITSC Executive Director and Commissioner Mark Chavaree met Independent candidate Barbara Merrill and her campaign manager on October 6, 2006.

• Independent candidate Sidi Ould Cheikh ABDALLAHI was inaugurated in April 2007 as Mauritania's first freely and fairly elected president.

• He was an Independent candidate in the 1999 Presidential elections.Salima Ghezali -- Editor of the banned Algerian newspaper- La Nation.

• It is important to state that almost every candidate who contests an election in Ireland, be it party or Independent, exhibits some of these attributes; what distinguishes this type of Independent candidate is that these are their sole, or at least most distinguishing, attributes.As Figure 3 indicates, Community Independents have consistently been by far the most successful type of Independent candidate, winning on average 25,700 votes and 31 percent of the overall Independent vote at each election.

• He was an Independent candidate in the 1999 Presidential elections.Salima Ghezali -- Editor of the previously banned Algerian newspaper- La Nation.

More Definitions of Independent candidate

Independent candidate means a candidate who has properly filed

Independent candidate means a candidate who does not represent a political party that has been granted ballot status for the general election and who has qualified, or is seeking to qualify, to be on the general election ballot.

Independent candidate means a candidate for presidential, parliamentary or county elections who is not a member of a political party;

Independent candidate means a candidate not sponsored by a political party;

Independent candidate means a candidate who does not represent a political party that has been granted ballot status and holds a primary election to choose its nominee for the general election.

Independent candidate means a candidate in a nonpartisan election or a candidate in a partisan election who is not the nominee of a political party.

Independent candidate means a person who does not stand in an election for any political party, whether individually or in a group;