Liberty County voters will have several contested races to decide in the upcoming general primary — including those for school board chair and county commission District 1.

Four people have qualified to run for the school board chair spot, including incumbent Verdell Jones and former schools superintendent Dr. Franklin Perry. Also running are Tim King and Kisya Burnett.

The school board chairperson race, as other school board races are, is nonpartisan.

Incumbents Natalie Hines, who represents District 4, and Donita Strickland, who represents District 6, are not running for re-election. Terry Cook and Charlene Rocker qualified to run for the District 4 seat, and Richard Hayes and Teresa Wiser are running for the District 6 seat.

Chante Baker Martin, the District 5 incumbent, is running again for her seat and does not face any opposition.

Three county commission seats are up for election, and District 2 incumbent Justin Frasier will not face opposition in either the Democrat primary or the November general election. District 1 incumbent Marion Stevens Sr. and District 3 incumbent Connie Thrift, both Democrats, are facing challengers in the primary and the winners of those races will have opposition in November.

Stevens is facing former Midway City Council member Stanley Brown and former Walthourville mayor Larry Baker in the primary, and Janelle Johns has qualified to run against Thrift. The winner of the District 1 primary will face Joseph “Michael” Cook, a Republican, in the November general election, and the winner of the District 3 primary will face Republican Greg Lachowsky in the general election.

State Rep. Al Williams (D-Midway) has qualified to run again for his House District 168 seat and he will face opposition in the Democrat primary from local businesswoman Sabrina Newby. The winner of that primary will face Republican Kevin Remillard in the November general election.

Ben Watson has qualified to run again for his state Senate District 1 post. No other Republican has qualified to date. Corey Foreman and Barbara Gooby have qualified for the Democrat primary.

Incumbent District Attorney Billy Joe Nelson has qualified for the Republican primary. So far, he does not face any challengers in either primary.

Former Hinesville mayor Buddy Deloach (R-Townsend) has qualified to run again for his House District 167 seat. Democrat Laurie Anne Thompson, a McIntosh County lawyer, has qualified, as has Democrat Nathaniel Hicks Jr.

Dwayne Gillis, David Sikes and Travis Hodges have qualified to run as Republicans for the Senate District 19 seat. Blake Tillery, the incumbent, is running for lieutenant governor. Eduardo Delgado and Joshua Wilkerson have qualified in the Democrat primary. The 19th Senate District includes Long County.

Six people have signed up on the Republican side and eight Democrats have qualified so far to run for the U.S. House 1st District, currently held by Buddy Carter. Carter is running for U.S. Senate.

Running in the Republican primary are Pat Farrell, Brian Montgomery, Kandiss Taylor, Eugene Yu, Krista Penn and Jim Kingston. Democrats who have qualified are Amanda Hollowell, Defonsio Daniels, Joey Palimeno, Patrick Wilver, Randall Jay Zurcher, Joyce Marie Griggs, Michael McCord and Sharon Stokes Williamson.

Carter and four other Republican hopefuls — U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, John Coyne III, Jonathan McColumn, and former college football coach Derek Dooley — have qualified to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Jon Ossoff.

Ossoff does not have a challenger in the Democrat primary.

With no incumbents running in four statewide races, Georgia will have a new governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and attorney general next year. Brian Kemp, the current governor, is at the end of his second term and term limits bar him from running again. Current Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and Attorney General Chris Carr are running for the Republican nomination for governor, as are six others — current state Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Clark Dean, Gregg Kirkpatrick, Ken Yasger, Rick Jackson and Tom Williams.

Seven Democrats are running for governor — former Atlanta mayor Keisha Bottom, former state Sen. Jason Esteves, former lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan, former labor commissioner Mike Thurmond, state Rep. Derrick Jackson, Amanda Duffy and Olu Brown.

Running for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, along with Tillery, are state Sen. John Kennedy, Brenda Lynn Nelson- Porter, David Clark, former state Sen. Greg Dolezal, former state Sen. Steve Gooch and Takosha Swan.

Democrats running for lieutenant governor are former state Sen. Josh McLaurin, state Sen. Nabilah Parkes, and Richard Wright.

Democrats running for attorney general include former state Rep. Bob Trammell, Herbert Adams Jr. and state Rep. Tanya Miller. On the Republican side, the primary candidates are state Sen. Bill Cowsert and state Sen. Brian Strickland.

Five Republicans are vying for the nomination to succeed Raffensperger as secretary of state — Ted Metz, Gabriel Sterling, Kelvin King, Timothy Fleming and Vernon Jones. Running on the Democrat side are four contestants — Adrian Consonery Jr., Cam Thi Ashling, Dana Barrett, and Penny Brown Reynolds.

Incumbent state Schools Superintendent Richard Woods faces a primary challenge from four candidates — Bubba Longgrear, Mesha Mainor, Nelva Lee and Randell Trammell. The three Democrats running are Anton Anthony, Lydia Powell and Otha Thornton.

State Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper is running opposed in the Republican primary. He will face the winner of the Democrat primary between Katherine Juhan- Arnold and Sedrick Rowe Jr.

John King likewise faces no primary challenger for his post as state insurance commissioner. The Republican will face the winner of the Democrat primary between Ambuj “AJ” Jain, Clarence Blalock, Deandre Mathis, Keisha Waites, and Thomas Dean.

Labor Commissioner Barbara Rivera Holmes, who was appointed to the office following the death of predecessor Bruce Thompson, is unopposed in the Republican primary for her first full term in office. Five Democrats are running for the post. They are Brett Hulme, Christian Smith, Jason Moon, Michelle Sanchez and Nikki Porcher.

Two seats on the state Public Service Commission are being contested. Democrat incumbent Peter Hubbard will face a challenge for his District 3 post from the winner of the Republican primary between Brandon Martin and former PSC commissioner Fitz Johnson.

Republicans Bobby Mehan, Carolyn Roddy and Joshua Tolbert are running for the PSC District 5 nomination against the winner of the Democrat primary between Angelia Pressley, Craig Cupid and Shelia Edwards.

Qualifying ended Friday at noon. The general primary will be held May 19. The deadline to register to vote, for those who are not already registered, is April 20. Advance voting begins April 20 and two Saturday sessions — May 2 and May 9 — will be held for early voting.