Registered Democrats and Republicans will each head to the polls May 21 to determine which candidates they will nominate for jobs ranging from county judge to township tax collector.

Those candidates will go on to compete in the November General Election, filling seats on city and borough councils, township boards, school boards and judgeships.

To compile this voters' guide, we mailed questionnaires to all candidates in contested races. Their responses have been compiled into this database, searchable by municipality or office being sought.

Information on candidates for Common Pleas court judge offices in Dauphin and York counties is posted here.

Next to each elected position is a note in parenthesis showing the number of seats that will be up for election. That is the number of nominees that will be chosen from candidates on the Republican ballot; Democrats will choose the same number of nominees from candidates on the Democratic ballot.

In some races, particularly school board races, many candidates are running on both the Republican and Democratic ballots. In those cases, in place of the candidates’ party affiliation, we have noted simply that the candidate has cross-filed. Candidates listed as being on the Republican or Democratic ballots appear on only those ballots.

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