---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 734.207"
title: "5"
number: "734.207"
heading: "Candidacy for public office."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/734.207"
---

# §734.207. Candidacy for public office.


An employee may:

- (a) Run as an independent candidate in a partisan election covered by [5 CFR part 733](/cfr/5/part733.md); and
- (b) **Run as a candidate in a nonpartisan election.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 1103, 1104, 7325; Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1978, 92 Stat. 3783, 3 CFR 1978 Comp. p. 323; and E.O. 12107, 3 CFR 1978 Comp. p. 264.

### Source

Source: 59 FR 48769, Sept. 23, 1994, unless otherwise noted.