Terms Used In California Codes > Elections Code > Division 15 > Chapter 5 - Announcement of Results

• candidate: includes any officeholder who is subject to a recall election. See California Elections Code 305
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Department: means the Department of Food and Agriculture. See California Food and Agricultural Code 32
• Election: means any election including a primary that is provided for under this code. See California Elections Code 318
• Elections official: means any of the following:

  California Elections Code 320

• General election: means either of the following:

  California Elections Code 324

• license: means license, certificate, registration, or other means to engage in a business or profession regulated by this code or referred to in Section 1000 or 3600. See California Business and Professions Code 23.7
• Licensee: means any person authorized by a license, certificate, registration, or other means to engage in a business or profession regulated by this code or referred to in Sections 1000 and 3600. See California Business and Professions Code 23.8
• Measure: means any constitutional amendment or other proposition submitted to a popular vote at any election. See California Elections Code 329
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Business and Professions Code 21
• Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs, unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Business and Professions Code 15
• trustees: means the Trustees of the California State University, created under Section 66600. See California Education Code 89000
• Voter-nominated office: means a congressional or state elective office for which a candidate may choose to have his or her party preference or lack of party preference indicated upon the ballot. See California Elections Code 359.5