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Home » US Law » 2022 California Code » Elections Code - ELEC » DIVISION 5 - POLITICAL PARTY QUALIFICATIONS » CHAPTER 2 - Parties Qualified to Participate in the Primary Election

Section 5100.

5100. A party is qualified to participate in a primary election under any of the following conditions: (a) (1) At the last preceding gubernatorial primary election, the sum of the votes cast for all of the candidates for an office voted on throughout the state who disclosed a preference for that party on the ballot was at […]

Section 5100.5.

5100.5. (a) Upon the occurrence of the gubernatorial election, each party shall have its qualifications reviewed by the Secretary of State. A party that does not meet the standards for qualification set forth in Section 5100 shall be prohibited from participating in any primary election. A party shall maintain its qualification to participate in any subsequent […]

Section 5101.

5101. Whenever the registration of any party that qualified in the previous direct primary election falls below one-fifteenth of 1 percent of the total state registration, that party shall not be qualified to participate in the primary election but shall be deemed to have been abandoned by the voters. The Secretary of State shall immediately […]

Section 5102.

5102. No party shall be recognized or qualified to participate in any primary election that either directly or indirectly carries on, advocates, teaches, justifies, aids, or abets the overthrow by any unlawful means of, or that directly or indirectly carries on, advocates, teaches, justifies, aids, or abets a program of sabotage, force and violence, sedition […]