North Dakota

• North Dakota Supreme Court

• Candidates are nominated in a nonpartisan primary election.
• The candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the primary election are placed on the general election ballot.
• The candidate who receives the highest number of votes in a nonpartisan general election is elected to the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Interim Vacancies

• The Governor shall fill any vacancy in the office of supreme court justice or district court judge by appointment from a list of candidates nominated by the judicial nominating committee, unless the governor calls a special election to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the term.
• Except as provided in subsection 2, an appointment must continue until the next general election, when the office must be filled by election for the remainder of the
  term.

• North Dakota CONST. art. VI §§ 2, 7 & 13
• North Dakota Century Code §§ 16.1-01-11