2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 26. Elections › §26-3-101. Elections to be on Tuesdays - Scheduling of special elections - State holidays - Filing of resolution.

A. No election required to be conducted by any county election board shall be scheduled for a day other than Tuesday.
B. Except as otherwise provided by law, no regular or special election to fill an elective office shall be held by any county, school district, technology center school district, municipality, fire protection district or other political subdivision authorized to call elections except as follows:
1. The second Tuesday of February in any year;
2. The first Tuesday of April in any year;
3. The date of any regularly scheduled statewide state or federal election in an even-numbered year;
4. The second Tuesday of September in an odd-numbered year;
5. The second Tuesday of November in an odd-numbered year; and
6. The second Tuesday of June of an odd-numbered year for a special election to fill a vacancy.
C. Except as otherwise provided by law or by Section 1 of this act, no election for any purpose other than to fill an elective office shall be held by any county, school district, technology center school district, municipality, fire protection district or other political subdivision authorized to call elections except on:
1. The second Tuesday of January, February, May, June, July, August, September, October and November and the first Tuesday in March and April in odd-numbered years; provided, a municipality with a population in excess of two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) persons, according to the most recent Federal Decennial Census, may also hold an election on the second Tuesday of December in odd-numbered years; and
2. The second Tuesday of January and February, the first Tuesday in March and April, the third Tuesday in June, the fourth Tuesday in August, and the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of any even-numbered year.
D. In the event that a regular or special election date occurs on an official state holiday, the election shall be scheduled for the next following Tuesday. In the event that any day of a candidate filing period occurs on a Saturday, Sunday or any official state holiday, that day of the filing period shall be scheduled for the next business day.
E. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or any provision of a municipal charter, any municipality, school district, technology center district, county, rural fire protection district, or any other entity seeking to hold a regular or special election to be conducted by a county election board on the same date as a regular or special federal or state election, shall file the resolution calling for the election with the county election board secretary no later than seventy-five (75) days prior to the election date. A candidate filing period of three (3) days, if so required by the resolution, shall begin no later than ten (10) days following the deadline to file the resolution with the secretary of the county election board; provided, the filing period for such municipal office may be scheduled on the same dates as the filing period for state or federal office to be filled at such election.
F. Any school district, technology center district, municipality, including any municipality governed by charter, rural fire protection district or any other entity seeking to hold a special election for the purpose of filling a vacancy shall schedule a candidate filing period of three (3) days to begin not more than twenty (20) days following the date the resolution calling the election is required to be filed with the secretary of the county election board.
Added by Laws 1974, c. 153, § 3-101, operative Jan. 1, 1975. Amended by Laws 1991, c. 129, § 1, eff. April 1, 1992; Laws 1992, c. 247, § 3, emerg. eff. May 21, 1992; Laws 1997, c. 176, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1997; Laws 2001, c. 33, § 23, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2003, c. 485, § 5; Laws 2005, c. 224, § 1, eff. July 1, 2005; Laws 2011, c. 196, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2011; Laws 2012, c. 31, § 2, emerg. eff. April 9, 2012; Laws 2013, c. 15, § 20, emerg. eff. April 8, 2013; Laws 2015, c. 380, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016; Laws 2016, c. 210, § 11, emerg. eff. April 26, 2016; Laws 2018, c. 110, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2018; Laws 2021, c. 416, § 2, emerg. eff. May 5, 2021; Laws 2023, c. 329, § 2, emerg. eff. June 6, 2023.
NOTE: Laws 2012, c. 152, § 1 repealed by Laws 2013, c. 15, § 21, emerg. eff. April 8, 2013. Laws 2015, c. 219, § 3 repealed by Laws 2016, c. 210, § 12, emerg. eff. April 26, 2016.