ATLANTA – Georgia voters start heading to the polls Monday to pick party nominees for the governor’s office, as well as a slew of other state and local offices.

Days and hours for early voting may vary from county to county. Voters can look up the details for their county on the Secretary of State’s website. Election Day is May 22.

Locally, Colquitt County will have three contested races:

• Denver Floyd Braswell is challenging incumbent County Commission Chairman Terry Clark for the  Republican nomination for Clark’s seat. This race is only on the Republican ballot. The winner will face no opposition in November’s general election.

• Charlton Tyler is challenging incumbent Patricia Anderson for her Board of Education seat. Only voters in District 5 will cast ballots in this race. The race is non-partisan, which means it will be on both the Republican and Democratic ballots in the district. The winner will be decided during the primary and the race won’t be on the ballot in November.

• Voters in District 1 will choose among five candidates for the Democratic nominee for the district’s County Commission seat. Barbara Jelks recently won a special election to fill the seat through the end of this year. She will compete against Jeron Bridges, Darius Dawson, Susie Magwood-Thomas and James Weeks for the Democratic nomination. Stacey Williams is running without opposition to be the Republican nominee and will face the winner of the May 22 primary in the general election in November.

Two other county commissioners, two other school board members and the chief judge of Magistrate Court are running without opposition.

In Colquitt County, early voting will be held 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday April 30-May 18 with Saturday voting 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on May 12. All the early voting will take place at the Courthouse Annex, 101 E. Central Ave.

With a term-limited governor and several incumbents retiring or stepping down, much is at stake on the state level this election season.

Right now, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle is the one to beat on the Republican side, according to a poll released Friday by the Atlanta Journal Constitution/Channel 2 Action News.

That poll showed Cagle with 41 percent of the vote. Secretary of State Brian Kemp was a distant second with 10 percent with former state Sen. Hunter Hill not far behind him with 9 percent. Businessman Clay Tippins had 4 percent; state Sen. Michael Williams came last with 3 percent.

But about one-third of Republican voters had not yet picked their candidate, according to the poll. That race is expected to go to a runoff.

On the Democratic side, former House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams had 33 percent of support while her opponent, former state representative Stacey Evans, had 15 percent, according to an AJC/Channel 2 Action News released last week.

About half of Democratic voters haven’t yet settled on a candidate, the survey found.

Sample ballots can be found on the Secretary of State’s site at mvp.sos.ga.gov.