Filing period for 2012 Primary Elections   Click here for more information.
FILING PERIOD BEGINS: February 13, 2012 AT 12 NOON.

FILING PERIOD ENDS: February 29, 2012 AT 12 NOON.

PRIMARY: Tuesday, May 8, 2012

GENERAL ELECTION: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2012




NOTICE TO CANDIDATES:

All Notices of Candidacy, together with the proper filing fee, must be in the possession of your County Board of Elections by NOON on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, to be accepted. This does not mean in the mail at that time, and all Notices arriving after that time cannot be accepted. The filing fee must be paid with individual check or money order, payable to the Person County Board of Elections.


Business or corporate checks are not acceptable.


The Notice of Candidacy must be signed in the presence of the Chairman of the County Board of Elections or a candidate may have his/her signature on the notice of candidacy acknowledged and certified to by any officer authorized to administer an oath.


(See N.C.G.S. §163-106.) In signing his/her notice of candidacy the candidate may use a nickname provided the candidate complies with the requirement specified in G.S.163-106.


No person shall be permitted to file as a candidate of any political party in a party primary when such person, at the time of filing his or her notice of candidacy, is registered on the registration record as an affiliate of a different political party from that party in whose primary he or she is now attempting to file as a candidate. No person registered as "unaffiliated" or without any party affiliation recorded shall be eligible to file as a candidate in a primary. No person who has changed his political party affiliation, as permitted in G.S. §163-82.17, shall be permitted to file as a candidate in the primary of the party to which he changed unless he has been affiliated with the political party in which he seeks to be a candidate for at least 90 days prior to the filing date for the office for which he desires to file his notice of candidacy. G.S. §163-106(b).



FILING FEES:

NC State Senator
$ 207

NC State House of Representatives
$ 207

County Office
* 1% annual salary (starting salary of office)



Candidates for North Carolina General Assembly and County Offices file in their county of residence County Board of Elections offices and should contact the county office for information on filing for office.