2025 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 25 - Elections
Article 20 - School District Elections
25-2006 Definitions; primary, general and special elections.

25-2006. Definitions; primary, general and special elections.
As used in article 20 of chapter 25 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto:

(a) "General election" means the election held for school officers on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November of odd-numbered years, and in the case of special elections of any school officers to fill vacancies, the election at which any such officer is finally elected.

(b) "Primary election" means the election held on the first Tuesday in August of each odd-numbered year, and any other preliminary election at which part of the candidates for special election to any school office are eliminated by the process of the election but at which no officer is finally elected.

(c) "Special election" means any election held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March of any year or on the same day as a general or primary election.

History: L. 1968, ch. 59, § 6; L. 1982, ch. 157, § 1; L. 2015, ch. 88, § 39; L. 2025, ch. 82, § 4; July 1.