How to Run for Office

BALLOT ACCESS PUBLICATIONS

From the Colorado Secretary of State, Elections Office

1. 2010 Candidate Packet on How to Run for Office
2. Offices to be filled - General Election 2010
3. Unofficial Primary Candidate Election List

CANDIDATE QUESTIONS

1. Response to Request for Clarification of Vacancy Appointment Requirements
2. Elected County Officeholder Qualifications
   
3. Fair Campaign Practices Act Information
4. Filing Candidacy/Committee Instructions: Effective January 1, 2010, all campaign finance disclosure reports and committee registrations, except for those relating to municipalities, are handled by the Colorado Secretary of State's Office.
   
   • Secretary of State's Campaign Finance Filing
   • Colorado Campaign and Political Finance Manual

TIME & PLACE

1. Municipal County Calendar Finance Filing (PDF)*
2. Mesa County District Maps
3. Find your district!

*This calendar applies to all county candidates and committees who are participating in a 2010 election, which means you file on the frequent schedule. Please see the calendar for infrequent filers (those not participating in a 2010 election). If you are unsure of your jurisdiction (state, county, or municipal), contact the Campaign Finance Support Team at (303) 894-2200 ext. 6383 or cpfhelp@sos.state.co.us.

Additional Information

District Attorney's District is the 21st Judicial District

Section 13. District attorneys: election - term - salary - qualifications.
In each judicial district there shall be a district attorney elected by the electors thereof, whose term of office shall be four years. District attorneys shall receive such salaries and perform such duties as provided by law. No person shall be eligible to the office of district attorney who shall not, at the time of his election possess all the qualifications of district court judges as provided in this article. All district attorneys holding office on the effective date of this amendment shall continue in office for the remainder of the respective terms for which they were elected or appointed.

1-4-204.  State and district officers.
At the general election in 1982 and every fourth year thereafter, the following state officers shall be elected: One governor, one lieutenant governor, one secretary of state, one state treasurer, and one attorney general. The lieutenant governor shall be elected jointly with the governor. At every general election, the number of members of the state house of representatives to which each representative district is entitled shall be elected in that district. Candidates for the offices of regents of the university of Colorado, state senators, members of the state board of education, and district attorneys shall be voted on at the general election immediately prior to the expiration of the regular terms for those offices.

1-4-206  Other county officers.
At the general election in 1982 and every four years thereafter, one county clerk and recorder, who shall be ex officio recorder of deeds and clerk of the board of county commissioners; one sheriff qualified pursuant to section 30-10-501.5, C.R.S.; one coroner qualified pursuant to section 30-10-601.5, C.R.S.; one treasurer, who shall be collector of taxes; one county superintendent of schools, unless the office of county superintendent of schools is abolished at a general election; one county surveyor; and one county assessor shall be elected in each county, excluding a city and county. The term of office of all such officials shall be four years.

Section 10. Elector only eligible to county office.
No person shall be eligible to any county office unless he shall be a qualified elector; nor unless he shall have resided in the county one year preceding his election.

1-4-205. County commissioners.
(1) (a) Members of the board of county commissioners shall be elected in each county, excluding a city and county, for a term of four years.

(b) No person shall be a county commissioner unless that person is a registered elector and has resided in the district for at least one year prior to the election.

(2) Each county having a population of less than seventy thousand shall have three county commissioners, any two of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. One commissioner shall be elected at the general election in 1982 and every four years thereafter, and two commissioners shall be elected at the general election in 1984 and every four years thereafter.

(3) (a) In each county having a population of seventy thousand or more, the board of county commissioners may consist either of three members, any two of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, or of five members, any three of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

(b) If the board consists of three commissioners, they shall be elected as provided in subsection (2) of this section and as provided in section 30-10-306.7 (5), C.R.S.

(c) In any county having a population of seventy thousand or more, the membership of the board of county commissioners may be increased from three to five members pursuant to section 30-10-306.5, C.R.S., or decreased from five to three members pursuant to section 30-10-306.7 (2) (a) (II), C.R.S.

Source: L. 80: Entire article R&RE, p. 323, § 1, effective January 1, 1981. L. 88: (3)(b) and (3)(c) amended, p. 1113, § 3, effective April 9; (1) amended, p. 297, § 1, effective January 1, 1989. L. 92: Entire part amended, p. 674, § 4, effective January 1, 1993.