Chapter 25, ELECTIONS

25-101. Time for general elections; officers to be elected; vacancies. (a) On the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year, there shall be held a general election to elect officers as follows: (1) At each alternate election, prior to the year in …

25-101a. Same; state officers elected every four years; qualifications. (a) On the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November in 1978, and each four years thereafter, there shall be elected a governor and lieutenant governor running together, a secretary of state, an attorne…

25-101b. Election and term of state treasurer; vacancy in office, how filled; eligibility for appointment. (a) At the general election held in 1978 and each four years thereafter, there shall be elected a treasurer for the state of Kansas, whose term of office shall be four years…

25-105. Notice of elections; publication; contents. Except as otherwise provided by law, the county election officer shall cause notice of the time of the holding of any general election to be published once at least 30 days before such election. Such notice shall be published in…

25-106. Hours of voting; change of hours, how made; rules and regulations. (a) The provisions of this subsection shall apply to all counties in Kansas located in the central time zone. At all national, state, county and township primary and general elections the polls shall open …

25-107. Privilege from arrest. All judges, clerks and voters shall be free from arrest, except for felony and breach of the peace, in going to, attending on and returning from elections. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 36, § 63; October 31; R.S. 1923, 25-107.

25-108. Residence of public officers and employees. That for the purpose of voting, no person who is in the employment of this state or any municipal subdivision thereof in any civil capacity shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of such employment, but all…

25-111. Justices of the supreme court. (a) The offices held by the seven justices of the supreme court shall be separate and distinct offices, each to be filled by the selection of a candidate for that particular place. (b) A separate ballot shall be used for election upon the qu…

25-113. Votes for persons who are justices of the supreme court or judges of district courts. (a) All ballots or votes cast at any election for any person holding the office of judge of the district court, or of justice of the supreme court, except as hereinafter provided, shall …

25-116. Certain political parties barred. No political party: (a) Which is directly or indirectly affiliated by any means whatsoever with the Communist party of the United States, the Communist international, or any other foreign agency, political party, organization or governmen…

25-117. Same; affidavit of newly organized party; filing. No newly organized political party shall be recognized or qualified to participate or permitted to have the names of its candidates printed on the ballot in any election in this state until it has filed an affidavit, by th…

25-119. Election and registration expenses, how paid; counties without election commissioner. In all counties not having a county election commissioner, the expense of printing and distributing ballots and all other expenses connected with and that are necessary to provide for na…

25-120. Election expenses; tax levy, use of proceeds. The expenses of elections in counties not having a county election commissioner shall be paid by the county out of the county general fund, or the board of county commissioners of any such county may levy a tax each year upon …

25-123. Election to more than one office; incompatible offices. When a person is simultaneously elected to more than one office, such person may accept any such offices that are not incompatible with any other office accepted by such person. If a person accepts election to incomp…

25-124. Training of county election officers; duties of secretary of state. County election officers, as defined in K.S.A. 25-2504, and amendments thereto, shall receive instruction relating to their duties in conducting official elections, including procedures for complying with…

25-125. Prohibition on modification of election laws; legislature or legislative coordinating council approval required for election law or procedure litigation agreements entered into by secretary of state. (a) The governor shall not have any authority to modify election laws or…

25-126. Powers and duties of the secretary of state and county election officers in conducting elections. (a) The secretary of state shall be responsible for assisting and advising county election officers in conducting elections in compliance with federal and state laws and rule…

25-127. County election officers; persons disqualified from serving as a result of conviction of certain criminal offenses. No person shall serve as a county election officer if such person has been convicted of any crime described in chapter 25 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, …

25-130. Severability clause. If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the act and the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby. Hi…

25-131. Severability clause for 2021 House Bill No. 2183, L. 2021, chapter 96. If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this act that can be given effe…

25-202. Methods of nomination of candidates; limitation on filing for office; exceptions to application of article. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) all candidates for national, state, county and township offices shall be nominated by: (1) A primary election hel…

25-203. Date of primary election for national, state, county and township offices. The primary national, state, county and township election shall be held on the first Tuesday of August in even-numbered years for the nomination of all candidates to be voted for at the next follow…

25-204. Primary election notice. On or before April second in even-numbered years before the time of holding the statewide primary election, the secretary of state shall prepare and transmit to each county election officer a notice in writing, designating the offices for which ca…

25-205. Names of candidates printed on primary election ballots; nomination petitions, form and requirements; declarations of intent with fee; deadline for filing nomination petitions and declarations of intention to become candidate; candidates for municipal office; procedures. …

25-206. Fees of candidates; declaration. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), when a candidate in lieu of nomination petitions files a declaration of intention to become a candidate for any national, state, county or township office, the accompanying fee shall be in an amoun…

25-208. Place of filing nomination petitions and declarations. All nomination petitions and declarations of candidates shall be filed as follows: (1) For state officers, United States senator, representatives in congress, in the office of the secretary of state. (2) For all count…

25-208a. Validity of nominations; determination; duties of secretary of state and county election officers; objections. (a) Within 10 days, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays not included, from the date of the filing of nomination petitions or a declaration of intention to become a …

25-209. Certification of candidates; publication notice of primary elections; municipal primary elections. (a) As soon as possible after the filing deadline, the secretary of state shall certify to each county election officer the name and post-office address of each person who h…

25-210. Official primary election ballots. (a) The official primary election ballot for national and state offices and the official primary election ballot for county and township offices of each political party shall be arranged on the ballot, printed, voted, and canvassed in th…

25-211. Preelection ballot inspection; suggested changes in ballots; corrections; number of ballots printed. The county election officer shall, at least 50 days prior to the primary election, mail to each person whose name is to appear on the official ballot in such county and to…

25-212. Arrangement of names on ballots; rotation; municipal offices. (a) In case there are nomination petitions or declarations of intention to become a candidate on file for more than one candidate or for more than one pair of candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, of…

25-213. Official primary election ballots; form and contents; names printed more than once on ballot prohibited, exception; names printed on ballot of one party printed or written on ballot of another party prohibited; minimum votes required for election or nomination; write-in c…

25-213a. Ballot form; governor and lieutenant governor. Notwithstanding any provision of K.S.A. 25-213, and amendments thereto, there shall be printed upon the official primary election ballots the following heading (in lieu of the heading otherwise provided by law) when the gove…

25-214. Statutes applicable to primary elections. The provisions of existing statutes concerning elections, and any amendment now or hereafter made thereto, so far as the same are consistent with provisions of law relating to primary elections, shall apply to primary elections, t…

25-215. Qualifications of voters at primary elections; registration required. (1) No person shall be entitled to vote at any national, state, county or township primary election unless he or she is a resident of the voting area, a citizen of the United States, at least eighteen (…

25-216. Challenging right to vote; affidavit. The right of any person to vote at any national, state, county and township primary election may be challenged by any elector upon the same ground and his right to vote be determined in the same manner as at a national, state, county …

25-223. Payment of primary election expenses. All ballots and other supplies to be used at any national, state, county and township primary election, and all expenses necessarily incurred in the preparation for or conducting such primary elections, shall be paid out of the treasu…

25-301. Nominations by political parties to be designated as party nominations; selection of presidential electors; nomination of governor and lieutenant governor. All nominations made by political parties shall be known and designated as "party nominations," and the certificates…

25-302. Caucus or convention by parties not authorized to participate in primary; person listed on certificate of nomination must sign a notarized declaration accepting nomination. (a) Any recognized political party, except those authorized to participate in a primary election pu…

25-302a. Official recognition of political party; petition for; form, contents, requirements and filing; sufficiency; name of party; petition circulator. Any political party seeking official recognition in this state after the effective date of this act shall file in its behalf, …

25-302b. Recognized political party; loss of recognition. Any recognized political party whose nominee for any office for which the officer is elected from the state as a whole fails to receive at least 1% of the total vote cast for any such office in this state at any general el…

25-302c. Same; listing of affiliated voters. When a political party ceases to be recognized, each county election officer shall list as unaffiliated any registered voters then affiliated with that party. History: L. 1984, ch. 137, § 5; April 5.

25-303. Independent nominations; section not applicable to certain elections; number of signers of petition; requirements; validity of petitions, determination. (a) This section shall not apply to city and school elections, nor to election of other officers provided by law to be …

25-304. Certificates of nomination and party certificates of nomination, requirements; party names; presidential electors. (a) All certificates of nomination shall be in writing and contain the name of each person nominated, such person's residence and the office for which such p…

25-305. Deadlines for filing certificates of nomination by convention or caucus and independent nomination petitions; deadlines for filing affidavit of write-in candidacy. (a) Certificates of nomination by convention or caucus for the nomination of candidates for national, state,…

25-306. Acceptance of multiple nominations prohibited, exceptions; enforcement by secretary of state for state elected offices and county election officers for county and township offices. (a) No person may accept more than one nomination for the same office. (b) (1) If a person …

25-306a. Withdrawal of candidacy; procedure and deadline for withdrawal; omission of name from ballot. Any person who has been nominated to be a candidate at any primary election for any national, state, county or township office may cause such person's name to be withdrawn from …

25-306b. Withdrawal from nomination, when permitted; omission of name from ballot; death of nominee. (a) Except as provided by this section, no person who has been nominated by any means for any national, state, county or township office may be withdrawn from nomination after the…

25-306c. Certificates of nomination; public inspection. Upon the filing thereof, all certificates of nomination shall be open to public inspection. The secretary of state or the county election officer having charge of such certificates shall retain such certificates for at least…

25-306d. Filing fees nonrefundable. No filing fee shall be refunded to any person: (a) Declining a nomination pursuant to K.S.A. 25-306e, and amendments thereto; (b) withdrawing from candidacy pursuant to K.S.A. 25-306a, and amendments thereto; or (c) withdrawing from nomination …