Four of five seats on the Warren County Board of Supervisors are contested, as are races for sheriff and tax assessor on this year’s election ballot, which rounded out Friday with the end of qualifying.

Circuit clerk Jan Hyland Daigre entered the race officially Friday as a Republican. The former school board member won the seat in a special election runoff Nov. 23 and finished second for the job in 2011 as an independent. Daigre said when reached Friday she claimed the party banner merely in the interest of time. State law says those seeking the office as an independent in any county must have a qualifying petition signed by 50 eligible voters. Daigre garnered 63 percent of the vote in the runoff.

Daigre’s runoff opponent three months ago, former interim clerk Greg Peltz, filed to run for the position again, as a Democrat. Peltz is one of seven challengers for a local or legislative seat in Warren County who had run for office at least one other time in the past five years.

“I’ve decided I made a difference in the office and I want to finish what I started,” Peltz said Friday. “I’ve got tremendous support from the Democratic party.”

Party primaries for this year’s state/county election cycle in Mississippi are Aug. 4. The general election is Nov. 3.

Sheriff Martin Pace filed for re-election Thursday and, in the final 24 hours of qualifying, picked up two challengers. Pace was first elected in 1996 and won re-election four years ago with 75 percent of the vote.

Former deputy Lionel P. Johnson Sr. filed as a Democrat. Johnson, 39, a security consultant, cited a high crime rate in the city and county when reached Saturday. Leon Kennedy, 29, a patrolman with the Vicksburg Police Department, re-filed for the office as a Republican after switching from independent.

Tax Assessor Angela Brown picked up a challenge for November from former co-worker Ben Luckett. Brown, a Democrat, and Luckett, who filed Friday as a Republican, worked together under former assessor Richard Holland for 11 years. Brown defeated Luckett and two other candidates in the 2011 general election.

Joining Luckett in the Republican primary on Friday was local real estate appraiser Brian Breithaupt. “I’ve been an appraiser for 22 years and I feel there’s a need for change,” Breithaupt said Friday.

The Republican field of candidates for the District 4 supervisor race grew by two on the final day of qualifying.

John Carlisle, the district’s representative on the Vicksburg Bridge Commission and a former school board member, filed papers for the primary. So did Wayne Muirhead, a supervisor with the Yokena-Jeff Davis Water District making his first run for public office.

“It seemed like a good time to get in the race this year,” Muirhead said Friday. “There’s a lot of issues I care about.”

The two men join Marty Crevitt, a member of the Warren County Port Commission, in the GOP primary for the seat. Casey Fisher, who finished second to outgoing six-term incumbent Bill Lauderdale in 2011, faces former policeman Gary L. Cooper in the Democratic primary for the seat.

A second independent entered the race for supervisor in District 1. Ed Gregory Gibson, a retired engineer from Bovina, filed for the race. He and independent Ed Herring face the winner of a three-way Republican primary featuring incumbent John Arnold, Johnny Beauchamp and Steven Houston.

In District 5, five-term incumbent Richard George faces in the November general election Republican Joe Wooley, who has run for the seat three previous times.

District 3’s field gained one more entry, with Eros J. Smith, an independent and officer with the Mississippi State Capitol Police. He faces the winner of the Democratic primary between five-term incumbent Charles Selmon and Jim Stirgus Jr., the district’s school board member.

District 2 Supervisor William Banks picked up no challengers and will appear unopposed on the Democratic primary ballot.

Two justice court judgeships are contested. In the northern district, incumbent Eddie Woods faces local attorney Dennis McLain Walker. In the central district, incumbent James Jefferson faces Henry Phillips, who ran for the seat once before, in 2010.

In the Legislature, the Democratic primary field for the District 55 seat became a three-way race Friday with the entry of attorney Chris Green, who lost to incumbent Oscar Denton and two others in a 2013 special election to succeed incoming Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs Jr. Denton, Green and Arrick Rice, an employee of W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home, face off in the primary, with the winner taking the seat.

Bill Marcy, a three-time aspirant for seats in Congress and the U.S. Senate, returned to the Republican Party on Friday when he filed for the party’s nod in the District 23 Senate race against incumbent Briggs Hopson III. Marcy, a retired Chicago police officer, ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for Senate last year and lost races for Congress twice before as a Republican.

State Rep. Alex Monsour, who represents District 54, was unopposed in the qualifying period and will be alone on the Republican primary ballot.

Two other members of the Legislature, Democrats Chuck Middleton and Deborah Dixon, represent parts of southern Warren County. Each has qualified and has primary opposition — Allen Burks, a longtime member of the Claiborne County Board of Supervisors, and Maurice Hudson, of Fayette, oppose Middleton. Dixon is opposed by Machelle Shelby Kyles, of Bolton.

Other incumbents unopposed on this year’s ballot are Chancery Clerk Donna F. Hardy, Tax Collector Antonia Flaggs Jones, Coroner Doug Huskey, County Prosecutor Ricky Johnson, District Attorney Ricky Smith, Southern District Justice Court Judge Jeff Crevitt, Northern District Constable Glenn McKay, Central District Constable Troy Kimble and Southern District Constable John Heggins.