{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-25-101","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 25-101","heading":"Time for general elections; officers to be elected; vacancies.","body":"(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:\n(1) At each alternate election, prior to the year in which the term of office of the president and vice-president of the United States will expire, there shall be elected the electors of president and vice-president of the United States to which the state may be entitled at the time of such election;\n(2) at each such election, when the term of a United States senator for this state shall expire during the next year, there shall be elected a United States senator;\n(3) at each such election there shall be elected the representatives in congress to which the state may be entitled at the time of such election;\n(4) at each alternate election, prior to the year in which their regular terms of office will expire, there shall be elected a governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer and state commissioner of insurance;\n(5) at each such election there shall be elected such members of the state board of education as provided by law;\n(6) at each such election, when, in a judicial district in which judges of the district court are elected, the term of any district judge expires during the next year, or a vacancy in a district judgeship has been filled by appointment more than 30 days prior to the election, there shall be elected a district judge of such judicial district;\n(7) at each such election, when, in a judicial district in which judges of the district court are elected, the term of any district magistrate judge expires during the next year, or a vacancy in a district magistrate judgeship has been filled by appointment more than 30 days prior to the election, there shall be elected a district magistrate judge of such judicial district;\n(8) at each alternate election, prior to the year in which the regular term of office of state senators shall expire, there shall be elected a state senator in each state senatorial district;\n(9) at each election there shall be elected a representative from each state representative district;\n(10) at each alternate election there shall be elected, in each county, a county clerk, county treasurer, register of deeds, county or district attorney, sheriff and such other officers as provided by law; and\n(11) at each election, when the term of county commissioner in any district in any county shall expire during the next year, there shall be elected from such district a county commissioner.\n(b) This section shall apply to the filling of vacancies only so far as is consistent with the provisions of law relating thereto.","path":["Chapter 25.—ELECTIONS","Article 1.—GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch25/025_001_0001.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:11:27Z","sha256":"7cbaaff05adbc51885637ff6201ccbe483e56439ee24b6a90b99c8e538fc562b","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-24-1240","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-25-101a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}