{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-118.345","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 118.345","heading":"Certain primary candidates barred from having names on regular election","body":"ballots -- Section not applicable to presidential preference primary candidates.\n(1) No candidate who has been defeated or disqualified for the nomination for any\noffice in a primary shall have his or her name placed on ballots in the succeeding\nregular election as a candidate for the same office for the nomination to which he or\nshe was a candidate in the primary, except that if a vacancy occurs in the party\nnomination for which he or she was a candidate in the primary his or her name may\nbe placed on the ballots for the regular election as a candidate of that party if he or\nshe has been duly made such party nominee after the vacancy occurs as provided in\nKRS 118.105.\n(2) No person who was a candidate for nomination for any office in a primary and who,\nbefore the succeeding regular election, is declared by the judgment of any court of\ncompetent jurisdiction to have violated, in the primary, any provision of KRS\nChapter 121, or to be responsible for such violation by others, shall have his or her\nname placed on ballots for any office to be voted for in the succeeding regular\nelection.\n(3) This section does not apply to presidential preference primary candidates.","path":["KRS Chapter 118"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=54650","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:50:15Z","sha256":"154bc0ec2e01ea06048e827e01db3f35bcd01bc5e628e4826cde46bff3f624ad","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-118.340","next":"us-ky/krs-118.350"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}