Florida Statute 100.031 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title IX
ELECTORS AND ELECTIONS

Chapter 100
GENERAL, PRIMARY, SPECIAL, BOND, AND REFERENDUM ELECTIONS

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100.031 General election.—A general election shall be held in each county on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year to choose a successor to each elective federal, state, county, and district officer whose term will expire before the next general election and, except as provided in the State Constitution, to fill each vacancy in elective office for the unexpired portion of the term.

History.—s. 2, ch. 3879, 1889; RS 155; s. 2, ch. 4328, 1895; s. 1, ch. 4537, 1897; GS 171; RGS 216; CGL 251; s. 4, ch. 26870, 1951; s. 12, ch. 77-175.

Note.—Former s. 98.04.

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Orange Cnty., Florida v. Rick Singh, etc., 268 So. 3d 668 (Fla. 2019).

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" Id. (emphasis added). Regarding timing, section 100.031, Florida Statutes (2018), provides that "[a]

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2010).

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election in alternating even-numbered years, section 100.031, Florida Statutes, states: "A general election

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Orange Cnty., Florida v. Rick Singh, etc. (Fla. 2019).

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election as “partisan” or “nonpartisan.” See § 100.031, Fla. Stat. (2018) (“A general election shall

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