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DIVISION 0.5. PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS 1-362›CHAPTER 4. Definitions 300-362

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California Elections Code · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

(a) “Direct primary” is the primary election held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March in each even-numbered year.

(b) This section shall become operative January 1, 2019.

(Repealed (in Sec. 1) and added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 335, Sec. 2. (SB 568) Effective January 1, 2018. Section operative January 1, 2019, by its own provisions.)

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