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State office election filing deadline is 5 p.m. Friday

By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com

If you’d like to try to be elected as a state senator or representative, time is running out.

The deadline is today (Friday) at 5 p.m. in the Iowa Secretary of State Office to file to be a candidate to the Iowa House or Senate in the general election in November.

The deadline is also today to file to run for U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives in Iowa, in case you were wondering.

Both incumbents for the state districts representing Floyd County have filed to run for re-election.

Todd Prichard, a Democrat from Charles City who represents Iowa House District 52, filed Monday and is the only Democrat seeking the position as of Thursday evening.

Prichard was first elected to the House seat in a special election in 2013, and has been re-elected three times. He is currently serving as the House minority leader.

At least two people are vying for the opportunity to challenge Prichard for his seat.

Charley Thomson, a Charles City attorney, and Craig A. Clark of Rockford have both filed as Republicans, Thomson on Wednesday and Clark on Thursday.

Those two along with any other Republicans who file for the seat by 5 p.m. today will compete for their party’s nomination in the primary election on Tuesday, June 2.

District 52 includes Floyd and Chickasaw counties and part of Cerro Gordo County.

In the Iowa Senate District 26, which includes Floyd, Chickasaw, Howard, Mitchell and Worth counties and part of Cerro Gordo and Winneshiek counties, the incumbent is the only one to have filed so far.

Waylon Brown, a St. Ansgar Republican, filed his papers on Feb. 26 to seek re-election to his second term. No Democrats or other Republicans had filed for that seat as of Thursday evening.

Persons who want to run for county level offices have a little more time.

The positions of county sheriff, auditor and one position on the Board of Supervisors are open this year in Floyd County, and persons who file to run as a partisan candidate, declaring a party, have until 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, to file nomination papers in the County Auditor’s Office.

Those who chose to run without listing a party are required to have their nominating petitions turned into the County Auditor’s Office by 5 p.m. Friday, March 20.

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