2011 Kansas Code
Chapter 25. - ELECTIONS
Article 1. - GENERAL PROVISIONS
25-101 Time for general elections; officers to be elected; vacancies.

25-101. Time for general elections; officers to be elected; vacancies. 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:

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;

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;

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;

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;

at each such election there shall be elected such members of the state board of education as provided by law;

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;

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;

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;

at each election there shall be elected a representative from each state representative district;

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;

at each alternate election, in counties that may by law be entitled to elect such officer, there shall be elected a county surveyor;

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.

This section shall apply to the filling of vacancies only so far as is consistent with the provisions of law relating thereto.