Attention incumbents, challengers and voters — Scotland County’s election season will kick off in earnest in two days.

Beginning at noon on Monday, the Scotland County Board of Elections will start taking candidate filings for a dozen local elective offices. The filing period ends on on Feb. 29 at 12 noon. The primary is May 8 and the General Election is Nov. 6.

The local seats up this year range from state Senate to school board. Here is a complete listing:

State Senate 25, currently held by Bill Purcell; House District 66, held by Ken Goodman; House District 48, held by Garland Pierce; District Attorney held by Kristy Newton; Register of Deeds held by Debra Holcomb; four Board of Commissioners seat held John Alford, Clarence McPhatter, Bob Davis and Joyce McDow; and four Board of Education seats held by Charles E. Brown, Terence D. Williams, Jeff K. Byrd, Duke Williams.

The filing fee, which must paid by check if it exceeds $50, is based on one percent of the office’s starting salary. The fee for district attorney is $1,193; state House and Senate is $207; register of deeds is $494; county commissioners is $463; and the fee for school board is $10.

To help keep track of all those candidates who file, The Laurinburg Exchange is asking each candidate to provide a picture and biographical information for publication. A questionnaire can be picked up at the Board of Elections office or at the newspaper at 211 W. Cronly. We plan to report on each day’s filings in the following day’s newspaper and ask that candidates return the information the same day that they file.

We urge you to get involved, if not as a candidate, then certainly as a voter.