Primaries Tuesday in several county legislative districts

KINGSTON, N.Y. » Voters enrolled in political parties in nearly half of Ulster County’s legislative districts will head to the polls Tuesday to choose their party’s candidate for county Legislature races in the November election.

Primary elections are scheduled in 11 of the Legislature’s 23 districts, with six races in five districts featuring head-to-head contests.

Other primary races feature a combination of write-in challenges to named candidates through an “opportunity to ballot” procedure, and races in which the party’s candidate will be determined by write-in votes.

Polling places across the county will be open from noon to 9 p.m.

Primary elections will take place as follows:

District 2 (Saugerties election districts 1,2, 3, 4, 11, 13, 14): Incumbent Legislator Chris Allen and opportunity to ballot on Democratic line; Joseph Maloney and opportunity to ballot on GOP line; Joseph Maloney and opportunity to ballot on Conservative line; Joseph Maloney and opportunity to ballot on Independence line; opportunity to ballot on Green party line; opportunity to ballot on Women’s Equality party line.

District 5 (City of Kingston Wards 1,2, 4): Incumbent Legislator Peter Loughran and challenger Lynn M. Eckert on the Democratic line.

District 6 (City of Kingston Wards 3,5, 9): Opportunity to ballot on Conservative line.

District 8 (Esopus election districts 1,2, 3, 5, 6, 7): Laura B. Petit and Ira Weiner on the Independence line; opportunity to ballot on the Green party line.

District 12 (Plattekill election districts 1,2, 4, 5): Opportunity to ballot on the Green party line.

District 14 (Shawangunk election districts 3, 7; Wawarsing districts 5, 6, 7, 10): Incumbent Craig Lopez and opportunity to ballot on the Independence line; opportunity to ballot on the Green party line; opportunity to ballot on the Reform party line.

District 15 (Wawarsing election districts 1,2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11): Julius A. Collins Jr. and John B. Gavaris on the Democratic line; Cassie Spoor and opportunity to ballot on the Conservative line; Cassie Spoor and opportunity to ballot on the Independence party line.

District 16 (Gardiner and Shawangunk election districts 4, 5): Kathy Miller and opportunity to ballot on the Independence party line.

District 18 (Hurley election districts 2,3, 4, 6, 8; Marbletown districts 2,3, 4, 5, 6): Douglas Adams and incumbent Richard A. Parete on the Democratic line. (Parete, a Democrat who caucuses with the Legislature’s Republicans, recently announced his intent to run for Marbletown supervisor and has said he will withdraw from the race for the Legislature.) Adams and opportunity to ballot on Working Families line.

District 21 (Rochester and Wawarsing election district 12): Opportunity to ballot on the Green party line.

District 22 (Denning, Hardenburgh, Olive and Shandaken): Incumbent Legislator John R. Parete and Kathy Nolan on the Democratic line; Parete and Cliff Faintych on the GOP line; Parete and opportunity to ballot on the Conservative line; Parete and opportunity to ballot on the Independence line; opportunity to ballot on the Green party line.