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CFR	Code of Federal Regulations Pertaining to U.S. Department of Labor

Title 29

Labor

Chapter IV

Office of Labor-Management Standards, Department of Labor

Part 452

General Statement Concerning the Election Provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959

Subpart E

Candidacy for Office; Reasonable Qualifications

• Section Number: 452.32
• Section Name: Persons who may be candidates and hold office; secret ballot elections.

    Section 401(e) provides that in any election of officers required by 
the Act which is held by secret ballot, every member in good standing 
with the exceptions explained in sections following shall be eligible to 
be a candidate and to hold office. This provision is applicable not only 
to the election of officers in local labor organizations, but also to 
elections of officers in national or international and intermediate 
labor organizations where those elections are held by secret ballot 
referendum among the members, and to the election of delegates to 
conventions at which officers will be elected.