2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 1 - Elections
Article 4. Elections - Access to Ballot by Candidates

• Section 1-4-101. Primary elections - when - nominations - expenses.
• Section 1-4-102. Methods of placing names on primary ballot.
• Section 1-4-103. Order of names on primary ballot.
• Section 1-4-104. Party nominees.
• Section 1-4-104.5. Primary election canceled - when.
• Section 1-4-105. Defeated candidate ineligible.

• Section 1-4-201. Time of holding general election.
• Section 1-4-202. United States senators.
• Section 1-4-203. Representatives in congress.
• Section 1-4-204. State and district officers.
• Section 1-4-205. County commissioners.
• Section 1-4-206. Other county officers.

• Section 1-4-301. Time of holding presidential elections.
• Section 1-4-302. Party nominations to be made by convention.
• Section 1-4-303. Nomination of unaffiliated candidates - fee.
• Section 1-4-304. Presidential electors.
• Section 1-4-305. Compensation.

• Section 1-4-401. Time of congressional vacancy elections.
• Section 1-4-401.5. Special congressional vacancy election - continuity in representation rules.
• Section 1-4-402. Nominations of political party candidates.
• Section 1-4-403. Nomination of unaffiliated candidates for congressional vacancy election.
• Section 1-4-404. Nomination and acceptance of candidate.

Editor's note: Articles 1 to 13 were repealed and reenacted in 1980, and this part 5 was subsequently repealed and reenacted in 1992, resulting in the addition, relocation, and elimination of sections as well as subject matter. For amendments to this part 5 prior to 1992, consult the Colorado statutory research explanatory note and the table itemizing the replacement volumes and supplements to the original volume of C.R.S. 1973 beginning on page vii in the front of this volume and the editor's note following the title heading. Former C.R.S. section numbers are shown in editor's notes following those sections that were relocated in 1992. For a detailed comparison of articles 1 to 13 for 1980 and this part 5 for 1992, see the comparative tables located in the back of the index.

• Section 1-4-501. Only eligible electors eligible for office.
• Section 1-4-502. Methods of nomination for partisan candidates.
• Section 1-4-503. Method of nomination for nonpartisan candidates.
• Section 1-4-504. Documents are public records.

• Section 1-4-601. Designation of candidates for primary election - repeal.
• Section 1-4-602. Delegates to party assemblies - definition - repeal.
• Section 1-4-603. Designation of major political party candidates by petition.
• Section 1-4-604. Filing of petitions and certificates of designation by assembly - legislative declaration - repeal.
• Section 1-4-605. Order of names on primary ballot.

• Section 1-4-701. Party nominations to be made by convention.
• Section 1-4-702. Nominations of candidates for general election by convention.

Editor's note: Articles 1 to 13 were repealed and reenacted in 1980, and this part 8 was subsequently repealed and reenacted in 1992, resulting in the addition, relocation, and elimination of sections as well as subject matter. For amendments to this part 8 prior to 1992, consult the Colorado statutory research explanatory note and the table itemizing the replacement volumes and supplements to the original volume of C.R.S. 1973 beginning on page vii in the front of this volume and the editor's note following the title heading. Former C.R.S. section numbers are shown in editor's notes following those sections that were relocated in 1992. For a detailed comparison of articles 1 to 13 for 1980 and of this part 8 for 1992, see the comparative tables located in the back of the index.

• Section 1-4-801. Designation of party candidates by petition - repeal.
• Section 1-4-802. Petitions for nominating minor political party and unaffiliated candidates for a partisan office.
• Section 1-4-803. Petitions for nominating school district directors.
• Section 1-4-804. Petitions for nominating nonpartisan special district directors. (Repealed)
• Section 1-4-805. Petitions for nominating municipal candidates in coordinated elections.
• Section 1-4-806. Preregistrants eligible to sign petitions.

Editor's note: Articles 1 to 13 were repealed and reenacted in 1980, and this part 9 was subsequently repealed and reenacted in 1992, resulting in the addition, relocation, and elimination of sections as well as subject matter. For amendments to this part 9 prior to 1992, consult the Colorado statutory research explanatory note and the table itemizing the replacement volumes and supplements to the original volume of C.R.S. 1973 beginning on page vii in the front of this volume and the editor's note following the title heading. Former C.R.S. section numbers are shown in editor's notes following those sections that were relocated in 1992. For a detailed comparison of articles 1 to 13 for 1980 and of this part 9 for 1992, see the comparative tables located in the back of the index.

• Section 1-4-901. Designation of petition.
• Section 1-4-902. Form of petition.
• Section 1-4-903. Approval of petition.
• Section 1-4-904. Signatures on the petitions.
• Section 1-4-905. Circulators - requirements - affidavits - notarization - training.
• Section 1-4-905.5. Petition entities - requirements - violations - definitions.
• Section 1-4-906. Candidate's acceptance.
• Section 1-4-907. Filing of petition.
• Section 1-4-908. Review of petition - signature verification - notification - cure - rules.
• Section 1-4-909. Protest of designations and nominations.
• Section 1-4-910. Protest to a recall petition. (Repealed)
• Section 1-4-911. Review of a protest.
• Section 1-4-912. Cure - rules.
• Section 1-4-913. Defacing of petitions. (Repealed)

Editor's note: Articles 1 to 13 were repealed and reenacted in 1980. This part 10 was repealed and reenacted in 1992 and was subsequently amended with relocations in 2017, resulting in the addition, relocation, or elimination of sections as well as subject matter. For amendments to this part 10 prior to 2017, consult the 2016 Colorado Revised Statutes and the Colorado statutory research explanatory note beginning on page vii in the front of this volume. Former C.R.S. section numbers prior to 2017 are shown in editor's notes following those sections that were relocated. For a detailed comparison of articles 1 to 13 for 1980 and of this part 10 for 1992, see the comparative tables located in the back of the index.

• Section 1-4-1001. Withdrawal or disqualification from candidacy.
• Section 1-4-1002. Vacancies in major party designation up to the sixty-eighth day before primary election day - repeal.
• Section 1-4-1003. Vacancies in major party designation occurring between the sixty-seventh day before a primary election and the earliest day to mail primary election ballots - repeal.
• Section 1-4-1004. Vacancies in major party designation occurring from the day after the earliest day to mail primary election ballots through primary election day.
• Section 1-4-1005. Vacancies in major party nomination occurring from the day after primary election day through the earliest day to mail general election ballots.
• Section 1-4-1006. Vacancies in major party nomination occurring from the day after the earliest day to mail general election ballots through general election day.
• Section 1-4-1007. Vacancies in minor party designation or nomination.
• Section 1-4-1008. Vacancies in unaffiliated designation or nomination.
• Section 1-4-1009. Vacancies in school district director nomination.
• Section 1-4-1010. Vacancies in office occurring from the sixty-eighth day prior to primary election day through the earliest day to mail general election ballots.
• Section 1-4-1011. Vacancies of joint gubernatorial candidates - process for filling vacancy in nomination for office of lieutenant governor.

Editor's note: Articles 1 to 13 were repealed and reenacted in 1980, and this part 11 was subsequently repealed and reenacted in 1992, resulting in the addition, relocation, and elimination of sections as well as subject matter. For amendments to this part 11 prior to 1992, consult the Colorado statutory research explanatory note and the table itemizing the replacement volumes and supplements to the original volume of C.R.S. 1973 beginning on page vii in the front of this volume and the editor's note following the title heading. Former C.R.S. section numbers are shown in editor's notes following those sections that were relocated in 1992. For a detailed comparison of articles 1 to 13 for 1980 and of this part 11 for 1992, see the comparative tables located in the back of the index.

• Section 1-4-1101. Write-in candidate affidavit of intent.
• Section 1-4-1102. Time of filing affidavit.
• Section 1-4-1103. Write-in votes for governor, president.

Editor's note: (1) This part 12 was added by referendum as part 11 in 1990. It was repealed in 2003 and was subsequently recreated and reenacted in 2016, resulting in the addition, relocation, or elimination of sections as well as subject matter. For amendments to this part 12 prior to 2003, consult the 2002 Colorado Revised Statutes and the Colorado statutory research explanatory note beginning on page vii in the front of this volume.

(2) This part 12 was recreated and reenacted, with amendments, by initiative in 2016. The vote count on Proposition 107 at the general election held November 8, 2016, was as follows:

FOR: 1,701,599

AGAINST: 953,246

Cross references: For the declaration of the people of Colorado in Proposition 107, see section 1 on p. 2815, Session Laws of Colorado 2017.

Law reviews: For article, "Colorado Election Law Update", see 46 Colo. Law. 53 (Aug.Sept. 2017).

• Section 1-4-1201. Declaration.
• Section 1-4-1202. Definitions.
• Section 1-4-1203. Presidential primary elections - when - conduct.
• Section 1-4-1204. Names on ballots.
• Section 1-4-1205. Write-in candidate affidavit for presidential primary.
• Section 1-4-1206. Presidential primary ballots - survey of returns.
• Section 1-4-1207. Election results - certification - pledging of delegates.

• Section 1-4-1301. Formation of minor political party.
• Section 1-4-1302. Petition to qualify as a minor political party.
• Section 1-4-1303. Qualifications to nominate by constitution or bylaws.
• Section 1-4-1304. Nomination of candidates - repeal.
• Section 1-4-1305. Disqualification of minor political party.

• Section 1-4-1401. Legislative declaration.
• Section 1-4-1402. Applicability of part.
• Section 1-4-1403. Referral of question in single-county judicial districts.
• Section 1-4-1404. Referral of question in multiple-county judicial districts.
• Section 1-4-1405. Coordinated or general election ballot.
• Section 1-4-1406. County clerk and recorder designated election official - certification of results to secretary of state.
• Section 1-4-1407. Initiative - petition.
• Section 1-4-1408. Prior actions not affected.