Numerous elections on tap Nov. 4

With less than two weeks remaining until qualifying, political races across Acadia Parish are beginning to heat up.

Candidates for offices in Acadia will officially qualify for the Nov. 4 open primary election Wednesday through Friday, Aug. 20 through 22, in the parish Clerk of Court’s office.

Municipal elections — mayor police chief and aldermen — will be held in every municipality in the parish. In Crowley and Rayne, city court judge and city court marshal will be added to the mix.

Terms for the municipal seats are four years. The judge and marshal offices are for six-year terms.

Justices of the peace and constable elections also will be held on Nov. 4, those terms also for six-year periods.

All eight seats on the Acadia Parish School Board are up for election this year. Winners in those elections will hold office for four years.

The district attorney for the 15th Judicial District will be elected this year, as will a new district judge with the announced retirement of longtime District Judge Glennon Everett. Both of those seats boast six-year terms.

Voters in Acadia also will have a hand in electing a judge to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, a seat that the winner will hold for 10 years.

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives also will be elected on Nov. 4. Those terms are for two years.

Statewide, the U.S. Senator’s seat from Louisiana will be on the ballot. That term is six years.

In the event of runoffs, the general election is set for Saturday, Dec. 6.