Section 7551 Of Article 1. Delegates From California Elections Code >> Division 7. >> Part 4. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 1.
7551
. The state convention shall be composed of the following
delegates:
(a) Each officer named in Section 7550 who was nominated and
elected as a candidate of the party and whose term of office extends
beyond the first Monday in December in the case of legislators and
the Monday after January 1 in the case of other officers next
following the direct primary election, or the appointee or successor
appointed, elected, or otherwise designated by law to fill a vacancy
in the office of any such officer. These delegates are "holdover
delegates."
(b) Each candidate of the party in whose behalf nomination papers
were filed and who was nominated at the direct primary election by
that party. These delegates are "nominee delegates." Nominees for an
office the term of which extends beyond two years are delegates to
each succeeding state convention until that following the direct
primary election at which nominations for the office are again to be
made. If a candidate is a "nominee delegate" to the state convention
held in the year in which he or she is nominated, and is elected to
the office at the succeeding general election, he or she shall be
considered a "holdover delegate" to the state convention of his or
her party in the next odd-numbered year, if his or her party is
required to hold the convention.
(c) One delegate appointed for each of the officers named in
Section 7550 not represented by a "holdover delegate" nor by a
"nominee delegate" of the party. These delegates shall be chosen and
appointed in the manner provided in this chapter for filing vacancies
in the state convention and shall be known as "appointive delegates."