(a) Each officer named in subdivision (a) of Section 7150 who was nominated and elected as a candidate of the party and whose term of office extends beyond the first Monday in December, in the case of Members of the Legislature, and the Monday after January 1, in the case of other officers, next following the direct primary election, or the appointee or successor appointed, elected, or otherwise designated by law to fill a vacancy in the office of that officer, shall be known as a holdover member. (b) Each candidate of the party in whose behalf nomination papers were filed and who was nominated at the direct primary election by that party shall be known as a nominee member. Nominees for an office, the term of which extends beyond two years, are members of each succeeding state central committee until that following the direct primary election at which nominations for the office are again to be made. If a candidate is a nominee member in the year in which he or she is nominated, and is elected to the office at the succeeding general election, the candidate shall be considered a holdover member in the next odd-numbered year. (c) One member shall be appointed pursuant to Section 7168 for each of the officers named in subdivision (a) of Section 7150 not represented by a holdover member nor by a nominee member of the party.
