NC Gen Stat § 163-114 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 163 - Elections and Election Laws|Article 10 - Primary Elections.|§ 163-114 - Filling vacancies among party nominees occurring after nomination and before election.

 163-114. Filling vacancies among party nominees occurring after nomination and before election.(a) If any person nominated as a candidate of a political party for one of the offices listed below (either in a primary or convention or by virtue of having no opposition in a primary) dies, resigns, or for any reason becomes ineligible or disqualified before the date of the ensuing general election, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment according to the following instructions:PositionPresident Vacancy is to be filled byVice President appointment of national executive committee of political party in which vacancy occursPresidential elector or Vacancy is to be filled by ap-alternate elector pointment of State execu-Any elective State office tive committee of politicalUnited States Senator party in which vacancy occursA district office, including: Appropriate district executiveMember of the United committee of politicalStates House of Repre- party in which vacancy occurssentativesJudge of district courtDistrict AttorneyState Senator in a multi-county senatorial districtMember of State House ofRepresentatives in amulti-county representative districtState Senator in a single- County executive committeecounty senatorial district of political party in whichMember of State House of vacancy occurs, provided, inRepresentatives in a the case of the State Senatorsingle-county represen- or State Representative in atative district single-county district whereAny elective county office not all the county is located in that district, then in voting, only those members of the county executive committee who reside within the district shall voteJudge of superior court in a County executive committee ofsingle-county judicial political party in which vacancydistrict where the district is  occurs; provided, in the case of a  the whole county or part of the  superior court judge in a single-  county  county district where not all  the county is located in that  district, then in voting, only  those members of the county  executive committee who  reside within the district shall  vote  Judge of superior court in a  Appropriate district executive  multicounty judicial  committee of political party in  district  which vacancy occurs.     The party executive making a nomination in accordance with the provisions of this section shall certify the name of its nominee to the chairman of the board of elections, State or county, that has jurisdiction over the ballot item under G.S. 163-182.4. If at the time a nomination is made under this section the general election ballots have already been printed, the provisions of G.S. 163-165.3(c) shall apply. If a vacancy occurs in a nomination of a political party and that vacancy arises from a cause other than death and the vacancy in nomination occurs more than 120 days before the general election, the vacancy in nomination may be filled under this section only if the appropriate executive committee certifies the name of the nominee in accordance with this paragraph at least 75 days before the general election.(b) In a county which is partly in a multicounty judicial district, in choosing that county's member or members of the judicial district executive committee for the multicounty district, only the county convention delegates or county executive committee members who reside within the area of the county which is within that multicounty district may vote.(c) In a county not all of which is located in one congressional district, in choosing the congressional district executive committee member or members from that area of the county, only the county convention delegates or county executive committee members who reside within the area of the county which is within the congressional district may vote.(d) In a county which is partly in a multi-county senatorial district or which is partly in a multi-county House of Representatives district, in choosing that county's member or members of the senatorial district executive committee or House of Representatives district executive committee for the multi-county district, only the county convention delegates or county executive committee members who reside within the area of the county which is within that multi-county district may vote.(e) An individual whose name appeared on the ballot in a primary election preliminary to the general election shall not be eligible to be nominated to fill a vacancy in the nomination of another party for the same office in the same year.  (1929, c. 164, s. 19; 1967, c. 775, s. 1; 1973, c. 793, s. 45; 1981 (Reg. Sess., 1982), c. 1265, ss. 4, 5; 1987, c. 509, s. 10; c. 526; c. 738, s. 124; 1987 (Reg. Sess., 1988), c. 1037, s. 126.1; 1991, c. 727, s. 8; 1996, 2nd Ex. Sess., c. 9, s. 13; 2001-353, s. 1; 2001-403, s. 8; 2001-460, s. 4; 2003-142, s. 1; 2006-234, s. 6; 2017-3, s. 9; 2017-6, s. 3; 2018-146, s. 3.1(a), (b).)