{"data":{"id":"us-ca/cal.-const.-art.-ii-6","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"Cal. Const. art. II, § 6","heading":"","body":"(a) All judicial, school, county, and city offices, including the Superintendent of Public Instruction, shall be nonpartisan.\n(b) A political party or party central committee shall not nominate a candidate for nonpartisan office, and the candidate’s party preference shall not be included on the ballot for the nonpartisan office.","path":["* California Constitution - CONS","ARTICLE II VOTING, INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM, AND RECALL [SECTION 1. - SEC. 20.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"3195871714d6f6d58a87ebf5ab253e208f0709601a21b2aee45c37b96a132196","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/cal.-const.-art.-ii-5","next":"us-ca/cal.-const.-art.-ii-7"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}