The regular town election shall be held on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November in each odd numbered year.
On the fourth Tuesday, preceding every regular town election, there shall be held a preliminary election for the purpose of nominating candidates.
(a) 
Signature Requirements -- The number of signatures of voters required to place the name of a candidate on the official ballot to be used at a preliminary election, or any special election for an office shall be as follows: One hundred signatures of voters for an office which is elected at large and fifty signatures of voters of the precinct for the office of precinct councilman.
(b) 
Information to Voters -- Every petition requesting the placement of the name of a candidate for nomination on the official ballot for use at a preliminary election, or any special election for an office may state in not more than eight words the elected or appointed public offices which the candidate for nomination holds or has held and the name of the political party in which he is enrolled. Against the name of any such candidate, there shall be printed on the official ballot for a preliminary election, or any special election for an office, the statement contained in the petition.
(c) 
Ballot Position -- The order in which names of candidates appear on the ballot for each office shall be determined by a drawing by lot conducted by the town clerk in the presence of such candidates or their representatives.
(d) 
Determination of Candidates for Election -- The two persons receiving at a preliminary election the highest number of votes for nomination for an office shall, be the sole candidates for that office whose names may be printed on the official ballot to be used at the regular election at which such office is to be filled, and no acceptance of a nomination at a preliminary election shall be necessary to its validity.
If two or more persons are to be elected to the same office at such regular or special election the several persons in number equal to twice the number so to be elected receiving at such preliminary election the highest number of votes for nomination for that office shall be the sole candidates for that office whose names may be printed on the official ballot.
If the preliminary election results in a tie vote among candidates for nomination receiving the lowest number of votes, which, but for said tie vote, would entitle a person receiving the same to have his name printed upon the official ballot for the election, all candidates participating in said tie vote shall have their names printed upon the official ballot, although in consequence there be printed thereon candidates to a number exceeding twice the number to be elected.
(e) 
Nomination of candidates; conditions making preliminary election unnecessary -- If at the expiration of the time for filing statements of candidates to be voted for at any preliminary election not more than twice as many such statements have been filed with the town clerk for an office as are to be elected to such office the candidates whose statements have thus been filed shall be deemed to have been nominated to said office, and their names shall be voted on for such office at the succeeding regular election, and the town clerk shall not print said names upon the ballot to be used at said preliminary election and no other nomination to said office shall be made. If in consequence it shall appear that no names are to be printed upon the official ballot to be used at any preliminary election in any precinct or precincts of the town, no preliminary election shall be held in any such precinct or precincts.
(a) 
Information to Voters -- Against the name of each candidate there shall be printed on the official ballot the statement provided for in section 7-2(b) and, if the candidate in a regular town election is an incumbent of the office to which he seeks election, against his name shall appear the phrase "Candidate for Reelection."
(b) 
Ballot Position -- The order in which names of candidates appear on the ballot for each office in a regular town election shall be determined by a drawing by a lot conducted by the town clerk in the presence of such candidates or their representatives.
The territory of the town shall be divided into seven precincts so established as to consist of as nearly equal a number of inhabitants as it is possible to achieve based on in compact and contiguous territory; bounded insofar as possible by the center line of known streets or ways or by other well defined limits.
Except as expressly provided in the charter and authorized by state law, all town elections shall be governed by the laws of the commonwealth relating to the right to vote, the registration of voters, the nomination of candidates, the conduct of preliminary, regular, and special elections, the submission of charter amendments and other propositions, the counting of votes and the declaration of results.