Full List of Municipal and Legislative Primary Candidates Finalized

Six total candidates will run unopposed in the Republican and Democratic municipal primary elections June 7, pending certification from the municipal clerk.

Incumbent Mayor Keith Hartman, incumbent Councilman Tony Coppola and Galloway Township Planning Board and Economic Development Committee member Brian Tyrrell will run in the Republican primary.

Incumbent Councilman Jim Gorman, Galloway Democratic Club President Kevin Krumaker and Galloway Democratic Club Second Vice President Jim McElwee will run in the Democratic primary.

All six filed prior to the 4 p.m. deadline. All six are awaiting certification from the municipal clerk.

Three council seats are open in the November elections, so the six men from the two parties will run unopposed in their respective primaries.

The general elections are Nov. 8. All three seats are for four-year terms.

Last week, Galloway Township was redistricted into District 9, and as a result, polling locations will change with this year's primary. Those locations will be released by the township following the April 27 school board elections.

Monday was also the deadline to file for state and general assembly Legislature primaries. In District 9 at the state level, incumbent Sen. Christopher J. Connors, of Forked River, was the only Republican to file and will run against Democrat Dorothy A. Ryan, of Barnegat.

In the general assembly in District 9, incumbent Republicans Brian E. Rumpf, of Little Egg Harbor, and Dianne C. Grove, of Brant Beach, have filed.

On the Democratic side, Carla Kearney, of Toms River, and Bradley Billihmer, of Bayville, will run.