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There are primary elections on the ballot countywide on primary day and voters will tackle some referendum questions as well.

There are candidates for School Board in District 1, District 3 and District 5.

County Commissioner races include a District 2 election that includes four candidates. Only Republicans can vote in that primary. In District 4, it is also a closed primary with only Republicans eligible to vote.
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Many elections in Lee County have no primary contests on the ballot and the election will be decided in November. County commission candidates run in five separate districts but are elected by the voters across the county.
In Lee County, there is no opposition in the Republican primary for two seats, District 2 and District 4. There is a primary election in District 5 to fill the vacancy left by the death of Commissioner Frank Mann.

In that race a Republican appointee named to the post by the governor is seeking to serve the remaining two years on Mann's term and faces two opponents in the Republican primary. A Democratic candidate qualified to run on the November general election ballot closing the Tuesday primary in District 5 to Republicans only.

The position of clerk of courts is also on the ballot for all voters in the primary. That election is to fill the remaining two years of the former clerk who retired in February.

Two candidates, both Republicans, have emerged and with no write-in candidate running, the Republican primary is decisive and open to all voters.

Elsewhere on the ballot, Democrats have primary contests for Congress from District 19 and for governor, attorney general and commissioner of agriculture. Republican contests include primaries for member of Congress in District 19 and for state representative from District 77.

Lee County will have school board primaries in districts 1, 4, 5 and 6.

In Cape Coral, where city council members are elected by all voters regardless of district lines, there are contested primaries in districts 1 and 4.

In Fort Myers, there is a non-partisan primary contest with four candidates in Ward 3.