Elections Code: The current Elections Code can be traced to the 1872 former Political Code. Elections played an important role in changes to the state legislature in 1911, when a populist revolt culminated in the election of a new Governor. Governor Hiram Johnson ran on a platform calling for extensive election reforms to return power to the people, including the initiative, recall and referendum as mechanisms to express the will of the population. In 1939, the Elections Code was formally adopted. The Elections Code of 1939 was revised and replaced by the 1962 Elections Code. In 1971, a Joint Committee for Revision of the Elections Code was formed to extensively revise the 1962 Elections Code. The Joint Committee’s revision was enacted in 1976. This reenactment was repealed and reorganized in 1994.
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Elections Code Sections
Section 100: Derived from former Political Code § 1083a, enacted in 1913.
Section 101: Derived from former Elections Code § 41.5, enacted in 1990.
Section 2026: Derived from former Elections Code § 206.5, enacted in 1984.
Section 2154: Derived from former Elections Code § 503.5, enacted in 1986.
Section 2267: Added in 2015.
Section 3017: Derived from former Political Code § 1360, enacted in 1923.
Section 3520: Derived from former Elections Code § 3520, enacted in the 1966 First Extraordinary Session.
Section 4001: Added in 2011 and amended only once in 2014.
Section 5100: Derived from a former uncodified section, enacted in 1909.
Section 8003: Derived from former uncodified § 5, enacted in 1909.
Section 8203: Derived from former Elections Code § 25304, enacted in 1963.
Section 9012: Derived from former Elections Code § 3510, enacted in the 1966 First Extraordinary Session.
Section 9020: Derived from former Elections Code § 3511, enacted in the First Extraordinary Session of 1966.
Section 9101: Derived from former Political Code § 4058, enacted in 1911.
Section 9115: Derived from a former Elections Code § 3708, enacted in 1976.
Section 9125: Derived from former Political Code § 4058, enacted in 1911.
Section 9160: Derived from former Elections Code § 1670.1, enacted in 1959.
Sections 9200 through 9226: Earliest derivations date back to the First Extraordinary Session of 1911.
Section 9201: Derived from former uncodified § 1, added in the 1911 First Extraordinary Session.
Section 9217: Derived from former uncodified § 1, enacted in the 1911 First Extraordinary Session.
Section 9241: Derived from former uncodified § 1, enacted in the 1911 First Extraordinary Session.
Section 9300: Derived from former Elections Code § 1900, enacted in 1957.
Section 10225: Derived from former Elections Code § 22840.5, enacted in 1973.
Section 10229: Derived from former Elections Code § 22844, enacted in 1980.
Section 13107: Derived in part from former Elections Code § 10219, enacted in 1961.
Section 13114: Derived from former Elections Code § 10217.7, enacted in 1978.
Section 13115: Derived from former Political Code § 1197(3), enacted in 1872.
Section 13308: Derived from former Elections Code § 10012.1, enacted in 1980.
Section 13309: Derived from former Elections Code § 10012.3, enacted in 1987.
Section 14025 through 14032: Enacted in 2002.
Section 14201: Derived from former Elections Code § 14201.5, enacted in 1971.
Section 15610: Derived from former uncodified § 22a, enacted in 1937.
Section 18203: Derived from former Political Code § 1213, enacted in 1891.
Section 18320: Derived from former Elections Code § 18320, enacted in 2001.
Section 21500: Derived from former uncodified § 16, enacted in 1883.
Sections 21501 and 21502: Derived from former Elections Code §§ 25001.1 and 25001.2, enacted in the 1964 First Extraordinary Session.