Three Beaufort County commissioners filed for re-election Monday, as did three Beaufort County Board of Education members, according to the N.C. State Board of Elections and Beaufort County Board of Elections.

Commissioners Chairman Gary Brinn, a Republican, and commissioners Jerry Langley and Robert Belcher, both Democrats, were joined in filing for office by school board members Carolyn S. Walker, Eltha Booth and Mike Isbell. School board elections are nonpartisan.

Washington resident Derek Davis filed for a seat on the Board of Commissioners.

Jennifer Leggett, the incumbent register of deeds in Beaufort County, also filed for re-election Monday.

Among others filing for office Monday were Judy Justice, a Dare County Democrat, and Warren Judge, a Dare County commissioner and a Democrat. Each seeks the 6^th District seat in the N.C. House of Representatives now held by Paul Tine, an unaffiliated legislator. Washington resident Ashley Woolard, a Republican, also filed Monday for the District 6 seat.

Tine changed his party affiliation from Democratic to unaffiliated in January.

District 6 includes part of Beaufort County and all of Dare, Hyde and Washington counties.

In Beaufort County, voters will elect four county commissioners. The seats currently held by Brinn and fellow Republican Hood Richardson and Langley and Belcher are available in 2016. The Beaufort County Board of Education seats held by Barbara Boyd-Williams, F. Mac Hodges, Walker, Booth and Isbell are available, too. Tracy Warren’s seat on the Beaufort County Soil and Water Conservation Board is up for election in 2016. The commissioners, school-board members and soil-and-water supervisors serve four-year terms.

The filing period for candidates seeking seats on a county’s soil-and-water conservation board begins at noon June 13, 2016, and ends at noon July 1, 2016.

Republican Michael Speciale is seeking re-election as the representative from District 23 in the state House.

Races for U.S. Senate, governor and Council of State and General Assembly seats are on the ballot. There are also elections for Congress, state judgeships and scores of county positions. The U.S. presidential election also takes place in 2016.

Because of a change enacted by the N.C. General Assembly earlier this year, the filing period began at noon Tuesday and ends at noon Dec. 21. Legislators also moved up the state’s 2016 primaries from May to March 15. In the past, the filing period for presidential, congressional, gubernatorial, Council of State and General Assembly races (and others) was conducted in the early months of the election year. The filing period applies to the primaries and general election in 2016.