If second-place candidates were tied, then the Senate broke the tie.

They were removed from office and their positions given to second-place candidates.

A runoff might unite the anti-Moi vote behind the second-place candidate.

Alex Munter, the second-place candidate in 2006, has stated that he does not intend to run in the 2010 election.

Hugh Cayley was returned to the legislature as the second-place candidate.

Under state law, if no candidate receives 40 percent of the vote in the primary, the second-place candidate can request a second primary (runoff).

Maddox, the second-place candidate, entered the runoff election against Arnall.

He proclaimed that he had moved "from a second-place candidate in the polls to a front-runner in the polls."

He won a tight race over the second-place candidate, Ainsley Robertson.

A second-place candidate could make the runoff with as little as 15 to 20 percent of the vote.