JASPER — One local race will be decided in August’s primary election while one more will be determined in the general election in November.

Incumbent Suezette Wiggins and Sammy McCoy will be on the primary ballot for the Hamilton County School Board’s District 5 seat. 

It is the lone local race to be decided in the Aug. 28 primary. Early voting will run Aug. 18-25.

Two candidates also qualified by noon Friday for the Hamilton County Board of County Commissioners’ District 2 position in Democrat Sandy Hurst and Republican Josh Smith, the incumbent. Hurst and Smith will meet in the Nov. 6 general election. Early voting for the general election is Oct. 27 to Nov. 3.

The other four local seats will all be filled by the incumbents, who are running unopposed. Randy Ogburn will serve another term on the county commission as the District 4 commissioner. Remaining on the school board will be Cheryl Deas McCall (District1) and Johnny Bullard (District 4). Sonny Scaff will again serve as county judge.

There are five candidates qualified for the State Representative District 10 seat, which will be vacated by Elizabeth Porter reaching her term limit. Chuck Brannan and Marc Vann are running as Republicans with Ronald W. Williams II running as a Democrat and Merrillee Malwitz Jipson and Fred S. Martin, from McAlpin, running as non-party candidates.

Five candidates are also qualified for the District 1 District Court of Appeal seat — Harvey Jay, Stephanie Ray, Brad Thomas, Kemmerly Thomas and Allen Winsor.

Running unopposed are Third Circuit judges Melissa Gates Olin (Group 2), and incumbents David Fina (Group 3) and Wes Douglas (Group 5).

Other statewide races include governor with 27 qualified candidates, including nine Republicans (Don Baldauf, Ron DeSantis, Timothy Devine, Bob Langford, John Mercadante, Bruce Nathan, Adam Putnam, Darcy Richardson and Bob White) and seven Democrats (Andrew Gillum, Gwen Graham, Jeff Greene, Chris King, Philip Levine, Alex “Lundy” Lundmark and John Wetherbee). Write-in candidates are Piotr Blass, Henry Choice, Jeanne Hunter, Hal Johnson, Anthony “Tony” Knox, Monroe Lee and Ellen Wilds. The four candidates without a party affiliation are Ryan Foley, Kyle “KC” Gibson, Raphael Herman and Bruce Stanley.

There are five qualified candidates for attorney general with Republicans Ashley Moody and Frank White, Democrats Sean Shaw and Ryan Torrens and non-party candidate Jeffrey Siskind. Incumbent Jimmy Patronis is the lone qualified Republican for chief financial officer, but he will face opposition from Democrat Jeremy Ring and write-in candidate Richard Dembinsky. There are also seven candidates for Commissioner of Agriculture in Republicans Matt Caldwell, Denise Grimsley, Mike McCalister and Baxter Troutman as well as Democrats Nicole “Nikki” Fried, Jeffrey Porter and Roy Walker.

In the federal races, incumbent Bill Nelson is lone Democrat running for the U.S. Senate. Looking to challenge him in November are Republicans Rick Scott, currently serving as Florida’s governor, and Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente. 

Also qualifying are write-in candidates Lateresa Jones, Howard Knepper, Michael Levinson, Charles Tolbert and David Weeks.

For the District 5 seat in the U.S House of Representatives, incumbent Al Lawson will face Alvin Brown in the Democratic primary. Republican Virginia Fuller will meet the winner in the general election.

The registration book closes July 30 for the primary election and Nov. 6 for the general election.