Title X, Elections

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Political party" means an affiliation or organization of electors representing a political policy and having a constituted authority for its government and regulation, and whose candidate received at least ten p…

holding elections. (1) Except as otherwise provided by law, voting in all primaries and elections shall be by secret paper ballot. (2) The general laws applying to primaries, regular elections, and special elections shall apply to primaries, regular elections, and special electio…

Except as required by KRS 39A.100 related to the emergency powers granted to the Governor and Secretary of State as to the time and place for holding elections, no government official other than the General Assembly may suspend or revise any statute pertaining to elections.

for or execute absentee ballot, and to serve or train to be election officer. (1) The polls shall be opened on the day of a primary, special election, or regular election at 6 a.m., prevailing time, and shall remain open until each voter who is waiting in line at the polls at 6 p…

(1) Every voting location on the day upon which any election is held shall, during voting hours, display an American flag of dimensions of reasonable size, which shall be firmly attached to the main entrance of the voting location so that it will be readily visible to the general…

candidates -- Ineligibility of Senior Status Special Judge. (1) Except as provided in subsections (3) and (4) of this section and in KRS 118.115, every political party shall nominate all of its candidates for elective offices to be voted for at any regular election at a primary h…

-- Ineligibility of Senior Status Special Judge. (1) Except as provided in KRS 83A.045(2)(b) governing vacancies in candidacy, candidates for unexpired terms to be filled at a regular election shall be nominated at the primary next preceding the regular election, if the vacancy o…

-- Form in which name may appear on ballot. (Effective until January 1, 2027) (1) Except as provided in KRS 118.155, any person who is qualified under the provisions of KRS 116.055 to vote in any primary for the candidates for nomination by the party at whose hands he or she seek…

Lieutenant Governor -- Joint election of slate of candidates. (1) Each candidate for the office of Governor shall designate a candidate for Lieutenant Governor to serve as his or her running mate in a slate of candidates. After the filing of the certificate or petition of nominat…

(1) The Secretary of State or the county clerk, as appropriate, shall certify the exact spelling and form of the name of the candidate to be printed on all ballots in accordance with the requirements listed in this section. (2) A candidate's nickname which is found to be, in the …

No person shall file a notification and declaration to become a candidate in a primary election as a pretended, fictitious or "dummy" candidate for the purpose of influencing or controlling the selection of challengers or inspectors or officers of election, nor shall any person s…

(1) The provisions of KRS 118.125 shall not apply to any eligible person serving in the Armed Forces of the United States while this country is at war. The name of such person shall be printed on the official ballot of his party for an office for which he is eligible in any prima…

Special Judge. (1) Except as provided in KRS Chapters 116 to 121, candidates for offices to be voted for by the electors of one (1) county or of a district less than one (1) county, except candidates for members of Congress, members of the General Assembly, and Commonwealth's att…

(1) A "bona fide" candidate means one who is seeking nomination in a primary or election in a special or regular election according to law. (2) The bona fides of any candidate seeking nomination as the nominee of a political party or a nonpartisan or judicial nominee in a primary…

If it appears, after the expiration of the time for filing nomination papers, that there is only one (1) candidate who has filed the necessary papers for a place on the ballot of any party on whose ballot he is entitled to have his name printed, the officer with whom the papers a…

All nomination papers filed under KRS 118.165 and 118.365 shall at all times be subject to inspection by any person.

(1) The Secretary of State and the county clerk of each county within this state shall each keep a book titled "Register of Candidates for Nomination in the Primary." The Secretary of State and each county clerk shall enter on different pages of the book for the different politic…

death, disqualification, or withdrawal of candidate -- Notice required at polls -- Penalty. (1) If, before the time of certification of candidates who will appear on the ballot provided in KRS 118.215, any candidate whose notification and declaration or certificate or petition of…

listing county offices -- Use of supplemental paper ballots -- Approval of State Board of Elections -- Ballot position unalterable. (1) After the order of the names has been determined as provided in KRS 118.225, the Secretary of State shall certify, to the county clerks of the r…

(1) The order of the names of candidates or slates of candidates to be voted for by the electors of the entire state shall be determined by lot and certified and printed on the ballots with the designation of the respective offices. The Secretary of State shall prepare lists of t…

(1) If a vacancy occurs in a candidacy for the office of Lieutenant Governor because of death, disqualification to hold the office sought, or a severe disabling condition that arose after the slate formed a campaign committee, the candidate for the office of Governor on that slat…

applicable to presidential primaries. (1) The candidate for office receiving the highest number of votes in a primary for the office for which he or she is a candidate shall be the nominee of his or her party for that office and shall receive the certificate of nomination. (2) If…

(1) The Secretary of State shall receive a fee of five hundred dollars ($500) for a candidate for statewide elected state office or the Congress, two hundred dollars ($200) for a candidate for Commonwealth's attorney, the General Assembly, or the District Court, Circuit Court, Co…

candidates -- Eligibility of candidates defeated in primary -- Notification of vacancy in elective office -- Ineligibility of Senior Status Special Judge. (1) Except as provided in KRS 118.345, and subject to the provisions of subsections (2), (3), and (4) of this section, the co…

Examination of petition -- Ineligibility of Senior Status Special Judge. (1) A candidate for any office to be voted for at any regular election may be nominated by a petition of electors qualified to vote for him or her, complying with the provisions of subsection (2) of this sec…

-- Ineligibility of Senior Status Special Judge. (1) Any political organization not constituting a political party within the meaning of KRS 118.015 but whose candidate received two percent (2%) of the vote of the state at the last preceding election for presidential electors may…

information on Web site. (1) Each county clerk and the Secretary of State shall keep a book in which he or she shall enter certain information concerning candidates to be chosen by convention. Such book shall include the name, place of residence, office for which the person is a …

If any certificate or petition of nomination made under the provisions of this chapter contains the name of more than one (1) candidate for any office to be filled, neither name shall be printed as a candidate for that office. If any person has been nominated as a candidate for a…

ballots -- Section not applicable to presidential preference primary candidates. (1) No candidate who has been defeated or disqualified for the nomination for any office in a primary shall have his or her name placed on ballots in the succeeding regular election as a candidate fo…

(1) Certificates and petitions of nomination shall, in the case of candidates voted for by the state at large or by a district greater than one (1) county, be filed with the Secretary of State. In the case of candidates voted for by a county or by a district less than a county, t…

Statement-of-candidacy forms -- Petitions for recall elections or elections on public questions. (1) Certificates of nomination issued by the State Board of Elections shall be filed by that board with the Secretary of State immediately. The certificates issued by the county board…

political group candidate -- Exceptions -- Examination of forms. (1) An independent, or political organization, or political group candidate required to file nomination papers pursuant to KRS 118.365(5) shall be required to file a statement-of-candidacy form with the same office …

fill vacancy -- Ineligibility of Senior Status Special Judge. (1) If a vacancy occurs in any elective office less than one hundred sixty (160) days before the primary or at any time before the time prescribed in KRS 118.365 for filing petitions of nomination, independent, or poli…

(1) The Secretary of State and county clerks shall preserve in their respective offices all certificates and petitions of nomination filed therein, for six (6) months after the election for which the nominations were made. (2) Each county clerk and the Secretary of State shall re…

of State. The county clerk of each county and the Secretary of State shall prominently display on his or her official website, the candidates, the email address or post office box address, the office sought, the district number of the office sought, if applicable, and the politic…

vacancy. No candidate's name shall appear on any ballot, including any federal provisional ballot, federal provisional absentee ballot, or absentee ballot more than once, except that a candidate's name may appear twice if he or she is a candidate for a primary or a regular electi…

(1) The General Assembly may state the substance of the amendment proposed to the Constitution of Kentucky in the form of a question in a manner calculated to inform the electorate of the substance of the amendment. When an amendment to the Constitution has been proposed by the G…

(1) The State Board of Elections shall issue certificates of election where the successful candidate was voted for by the state at large, was voted for by a district greater than one (1) county, or was a candidate for member of Congress or the General Assembly. (2) Except as prov…

The election of electors of President and Vice President of the United States shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November every four (4) years, beginning with 1892. The Governor may, by proclamation, appoint the same day in any other year, pursuant to Act…

The electors of President and Vice President of the United States shall convene at the State Capitol, or other location publicly designated by the Secretary of State on his or her official website, at 11:45 a.m. on the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December next aft…

Each elector of President and Vice President of the United States, for each day he attends at the State Capitol as an elector, shall receive the same per diem and mileage as may at the time be allowed to members of the General Assembly, to be paid out of the State Treasury.

One (1) United States Senator shall be elected at the regular November election every six (6) years beginning with 1914, and one (1) shall be elected at the regular November election every six (6) years beginning with 1918, to succeed the Senator whose term will expire the succee…

The election of representatives in Congress shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in every even numbered year.

presidential candidates. (1) The state executive committee of each political party shall, pursuant to its party's rules, determine whether to distribute its party's authorized delegate votes for presidential candidates at its party's national convention based on the results of a …

(1) Subject to KRS 118.555, on the first Tuesday after the third Monday in May, in each presidential election year, the Commonwealth of Kentucky shall conduct presidential preference primary elections within each political party. (2) Hours of voting shall be in accordance with KR…

To qualify to vote in a presidential preference primary in the Commonwealth a voter must register to vote in the same manner as prescribed in KRS Chapter 116. A voter shall vote only in the presidential preference primary of the political party for which he has declared a prefere…

The State Board of Elections shall convene in Frankfort on the third Tuesday in December preceding a presidential preference primary. At the meeting required by this section, the board shall nominate as presidential preference primary candidates all those candidates of the politi…

Qualification of candidate through filing of notice of candidacy. (1) Any person seeking the endorsement by a political party for the office of President of the United States, or any group organized in this state on behalf of, and with the consent of, the person, may file with th…

- Certification of candidates. (1) The Secretary of State shall contact each person who has been nominated by petition, or who has been nominated pursuant to KRS 118.591(5) and (6), and notify him or her in writing by certified mail, with return receipt requested, that his or her…

Escheat to Commonwealth. Before any candidate's name is placed upon the official ballot by the Secretary of State for a presidential preference primary in the Commonwealth, the candidate shall remit to the Secretary of State a filing fee of one thousand dollars ($1,000), which sh…