All city elected offices have a four-year term and are nonpartisan though most officials have a party preference or affiliation.

There are also elected offices at the local level, in counties and cities.

In some states, executive positions such as Attorney General and Secretary of State are also elected offices.

A closed primary was used to elect the presidential, legislative, and local partisan offices.

This reservation system, which came to include state elected offices and government jobs, shook the rigid scaffolding of caste hierarchy.

The clerk-treasurer and city judge are also elected offices.

November 25, 1970 - Changed the minimum age for state elected offices to 21, except in cases provided for in the constitution.

November 26, 1980 - Changed the minimum age for state elected offices to 18, except in cases provided for in the constitution.

As of January 10, 2011, Democrats hold all eight elected statewide constitutional offices:

But for the first time in a century, Republicans now hold all three of the top statewide elected offices.