Four incumbents in offices are opposed on this fall’s special election ballot for circuit clerk, school board and constable as the field rounded out Friday.

Qualifying ended with five candidates for circuit clerk, one of the highest-paid county-level elected offices in Mississippi. Interim clerk Greg Peltz picked up a fourth challenger in John Shorter, chairman of the Warren County Democratic Executive Committee. Others who had filed paperwork to run are insurance agent and former school board member Jan Hyland Daigre, former Vicksburg police officer Robert Donohue and Department of Human Services employee A. Sharonda Taylor.

The winner on Nov. 4 fills the unexpired term of Shelly Ashley-Palmertree, who was removed from office May 19 by the Warren County Board of Supervisors. Also, the winner may run again when the office comes up in the regular state/county election cycle next year.

Palmertree, who was discovered to have been living in Madison County, is the subject of criminal and civil trials for accused financial wrongdoing in office. The criminal trial is slated to begin Sept. 29; proceedings in Hinds County in a drawn-out civil case are continued until October.

Competitive races for the District 3 and District 4 seats on the Vicksburg Warren School District Board of Trustees took shape with filings from incumbents Jim Stirgus Jr. and Joe Loviza. Members of the board serve staggered, six-year terms.

Challenging Stirgus in the central-city District 3 is the school district’s former deputy superintendent, Dr. John E. Walls. Walls retired in 2010. Stirgus won the seat in 2008 by defeating former board member Betty Tolliver by 179 votes out of 2,903 cast.

Again facing Loviza is Katrina Johnson, a substitute teacher in the district. Johnson ran for the office in 2008 and finished 133 votes behind Loviza out of 3,634 cast.

The field to fill an unexpired term for central district constable remained at two.

Interim Constable Troy Kimble and former Warren County deputy Mario Grady will face each other in the race. The winner serves out the term of former constable Randy Naylor, who died last November.

In addition to those offices, chancery and circuit judgeships in Warren County also appear on the general ballot for U.S. Senate and Congress.

Incumbent Ninth Chancery District Judge Vicki Roach Barnes is unopposed this year, as is Ninth Circuit Place 1 Judge Isadore Patrick, first elected in 1989 and is Warren County’s longest-serving elected official. Circuit Place 2 Judge M. James Chaney is opposed by Justice Court Judge Eddie Woods for Chaney’s seat in the district.

State election officials list U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran as the Republican nominee for the seat he’s held since 1978, despite a renewed legal challenge from state Sen. Chris McDaniel. Cochran edged McDaniel in the GOP primary runoff June 24 after both fell short of 50 percent in primary voting June 3. McDaniel has claimed voting irregularities tainted the runoff.

The current ballot for the race lists Democratic nominee Travis Childers and Reform Party candidate Shawn O’Hara.

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson faces no general election challenger, having defeated Clinton laborer Damien Faircontenue in the primary.