To qualify to be a candidate for Mayor or Council, a person must be: At least 21 years of age. A resident of and have resided in the city for at least 12 months immediately preceding the election. Qualified to vote in the city.
CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS
A candidate for city council must be twenty-one (21) years of age or older, a city resident for at least one (1) year preceding election; and as a district council member shall during the term of office maintain residency in the district to which they represent.A person must be at least 25 years old to be the member of the National Assembly or to be Mayor or Governor.
Candidates for the office of governor of Kentucky must be at least thirty years of age and have resided in the state for at least six years preceding the general election.
Trump won Kentucky by the largest margin of any Republican since Richard Nixon in 1972, and swept counties across the state. Clinton only carried the state's two most urban and populous counties, Jefferson County, home to Louisville, and Fayette County, home to Lexington, both of which traditionally vote Democratic.
State government
| State | Governor | Attorney General |
|---|
| Idaho | 30 | 30 |
| Illinois | 25 | 25 |
| Indiana | 30 | None |
| Iowa | 30 | 18 |
Candidate salary
The candidate may receive a salary from his or her campaign committee only under the following conditions: The salary must be paid by the principal campaign committee; Incumbent federal officeholders may not receive a salary payment from campaign funds; and.House, Senate and presidential candidate registration. An individual running for a seat in the House or Senate or for the office of U.S. President becomes a candidate when he or she raises or spends more than $5,000 in contributions or expenditures.
While the Legislature is in session, the Governor has 10 days (not counting Sundays) to sign or veto bills passed by both houses. Signed bills become law; vetoed bills do not. However, the Governor's failure to sign or veto a bill within the 10-day period means that it becomes law automatically.
Presidential eligibility
- be a natural-born U.S. citizen of the United States;
- be at least 35 years old;
- be a resident in the United States for at least 14 years.
The Constitution prescribes that the Senate be composed of two senators from each State (therefore, the Senate currently has 100 Members) and that a senator must be at least thirty years of age, have been a citizen of the United States for nine years, and, when elected, be a resident of the State from which he or she
The amount spent on the presidential race alone was $2.4 billion, and over $1 billion of that was spent by the campaigns of the two major candidates: Barack Obama spent $730 million in his election campaign, and John McCain spent $333 million. The total amount spent by Obama and McCain was a record at the time.
General elections
A contribution to a major party (Republican or Democratic) presidential general election campaign is not permitted if the candidate chooses to receive general election public funds. The nominee must also agree to limit spending from personal funds to $50,000.As per the Constitution, the U.S. House of Representatives makes and passes federal laws. The House is one of Congress's two chambers (the other is the U.S. Senate), and part of the federal government's legislative branch.
Make sure you qualify for the House or Senate.
- To run for the House of Representatives, you must be at least 25 years old. You must have been a United States citizen for at least seven years.
- To run for Senate, you must be at least 30 years old. You must have been a citizen for at least nine years.
Current members
- Kentucky's 1st district: James Comer (R) (since 2016)
- Kentucky's 2nd district: Brett Guthrie (R) (since 2009)
- Kentucky's 3rd district: John Yarmuth (D) (since 2007)
- Kentucky's 4th district: Thomas Massie (R) (since 2012)
- Kentucky's 5th district: Hal Rogers (R) (since 1981)
Each state sends two Senators to represent their state in the U.S. Senate. However, in the House of Representatives, a state's representation is based on its population. For example, smaller states like Vermont and Delaware have one representative while large states like California have 53 representatives.
Congressman Thomas Massie | Representing the 4th District of Kentucky.
The GOP has held the seat since a 1968 special election. The district's current congressman is Van Taylor. As of the 2010 census, District 3 represents 765,486 people who are predominantly middle-to-upper-class (median family income is US$80,912).
Kentucky is currently represented in the U.S. Senate by Republicans Mitch McConnell (serving since 1985) and Rand Paul (serving since 2011).
The Senate and the United States Constitution. Under this plan, the Senate and the House would base their membership on the same proportional “right of suffrage.” That is, the number of senators in each state would be determined by its population of free citizens and slaves.
The Bill Is Sent to the President
Sign and pass the bill—the bill becomes a law. If two-thirds of the Representatives and Senators support the bill, the President's veto is overridden and the bill becomes a law. Do nothing (pocket veto)—if Congress is in session, the bill automatically becomes law after 10 days.First, a representative sponsors a bill. If the bill passes by simple majority (218 of 435), the bill moves to the Senate. In the Senate, the bill is assigned to another committee and, if released, debated and voted on. Again, a simple majority (51 of 100) passes the bill.
Kentucky is currently divided into 6 congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives.
