25-702. Plurality of votes to govern election of certain officers. - Kansas Statutes

25-702

Chapter 25.--ELECTIONS Article 7.--CANVASSING RETURNS AND CERTIFICATES OF ELECTION

      25-702.   Plurality of votes to govern election of certain officers.(a) In all elections for the choice of any officer, except the officesof governor and lieutenant governor, unless it is otherwise expresslyprovided, the person having the highest number of votes for any officeshall be deemed to have been elected to that office; and whenever it shallsatisfactorily appear that any person has received the highest number ofvotes for any office, such person shall receive the certificate ofelection, notwithstanding the provisions of law may not have been fullycomplied with in noticing and conducting the election, so that the realwill of the people may not be defeated by any technicalirregularity of any officer.

      (b)   In all elections for the choice of governor and lieutenant governor,the pair of candidates having the highest number of votes shall be deemedto have been elected. Whenever it shall satisfactorily appear that any pairof candidates has received the highest number of votes for governor andlieutenant governor, such candidates shall receive certificates ofelection, notwithstanding the provisions of law may not have been fullycomplied with in noticing and conducting the election, so that the realwill of the people may not be defeated by any technical irregularity of any officer.

      History:   G.S. 1868, ch. 36, § 29; R.S. 1923, 25-702; L. 1973, ch.153, § 22; L. 1987, ch. 126, § 2; July 1.