2025 Candidate Filing Period
PLEASE NOTE: You cannot declare candidacy until these dates. You can open your Personal Campaign Committee, however, that is different than filing a Declaration of Candidacy.
The next Salt Lake City Municipal Election will take place in 2025. We will update our website as dates are released.
Candidate Forms
Election Forms
Personal Campaign Committee includes the following:
Registration of Personal Campaign Committee
Candidate Information Page
Declaration to Limit Campaign Contributions & Expenditures
Statement Declining to Make a Declaration to Limit Campaign Contributions & Expenditures
Signature Authorization for Electronic Financial Disclosure
Post-Election Forms
Existing Personal Campaign Committee
Statement Declining to Limit Campaign Contributions
Requirements
The filing officer must read the constitutional and statutory qualification requirements for office to the candidate and the candidate must state whether or not they meet those requirements.
Requirements
- Candidate must be a registered voter
- Be a resident of Salt Lake City for 12 months immediately preceding the date of the election, and in the case of Council member, be a resident of the council district 12 months immediately preceding the date of election
- Have no other compensated employment with Salt Lake City Corporation
- Register a Personal Campaign Committee before receiving any political contributions or spending any money for campaign expenses
- File periodic Campaign Finance Statements
A person may be a candidate for only one office at any one election
Mayoral Candidate
- Pay the appropriate filing fee, click here to view the SLC Consolidated Fee Schedule.
- Or in lieu of fee, submit a Filing Fee Waiver Petition signed by 315 residents: 45 within each council district who are at least 18 years of age.
- Nomination Information Sheet
- Form: Petition-Mayor
Council Member Candidate
- Pay the appropriate filing fee, click here to view the SLC Consolidated Fee Schedule.
- Or in lieu of fee, submit a Filing Fee Waiver Petition signed by 75 residents within the council district who are at least 18 years of age.
- Nomination Information Sheet
- Form: Petition-Council
Write-in Candidates
Anyone wishing to become a valid write-in candidate must meet the above requirements of a candidate, file a Write-in Declaration of Candidacy, and pay the appropriate filing fee 65 business days before the Municipal General Election.